Antonyms for unlawfullyun·law·ful·ly

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1. unlawfullyadverb

   not conforming to the law

   "they were unlawfully married"

   Antonyms:
   lawfully, de jure, legally

How to use unlawfully in a sentence?

1. Jeff Sessions:

   When you are caught, you will be detained, adjudicated and deported, do not come unlawfully. Wait your turn.

2. Jeff Sessions:

   It cannot be the policy of a great nation to reward those who unlawfully enter its country with legal status, Social Security, welfare, food stamps, and work permits and so forth, how can this be a sound policy?

3. Troy Miller:

   The December update shows our new border enforcement measures are working. Even as overall encounters rose because of smugglers spreading misinformation around the court-ordered lifting of the Title 42 public health order, we continued to see a sharp decline in the number of Venezuelans unlawfully crossing our southwest border, down 82 % from September 2022.

4. Ken Paxton:

   As federal courts have already ruled three times, there are limits to the President's authority, and those limits enacted by Congress were exceeded when the President unilaterally sought to grant 'lawful presence' to more than 4 million unauthorized aliens who are in this country unlawfully, the Court should affirm what President Obama said himself on more than 20 occasions: that he cannot unilaterally rewrite congressional laws and circumvent the people's representatives.

5. Scott Bookstein:

   My client never had any desire or intention of harming the Pope, any dignitaries, law enforcement personnel or any other individual, according to the allegations against him, ... Mr. Cannella's misconduct was unlawfully entering a restricted area of JFK airport by following a motorcade and flashing a badge.

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