Usually means: Not in accordance with law.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word unlawfully:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. unlawfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. unlawfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unlawfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unlawfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unlawfully, unlawfully: Wordnik
  6. unlawfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unlawfully: Wiktionary
  8. unlawfully: Dictionary.com
  9. unlawfully: Rhymezone
  10. unlawfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unlawfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. unlawfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. unlawfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. unlawfully: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. unlawfully: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unlawful as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unlawfully)

▸ adverb:  In a manner not conforming to the law.

Similar:
illegally, forbiddenly, lawlessly, unconstitutionally, clandestinely, illicitly, uncustomarily, unauthorizedly, unrightfully, unwarrantably, more...

Opposite:
lawfully, legally, licitly

Types:
illegally, illegitimately, wrongfully, inappropriately, improperly, unsuitably, more...

Phrases:
takes unlawfully, seize unlawfully, killed unlawfully, take unlawfully, more...



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Similar:
illegally, forbiddenly, lawlessly, unconstitutionally, clandestinely, illicitly, uncustomarily, unauthorizedly, unrightfully, unwarrantably, more...

Opposite:
lawfully, legally, licitly

Types:
illegally, illegitimately, wrongfully, inappropriately, improperly, unsuitably, more...

Phrases:
takes unlawfully, seize unlawfully, killed unlawfully, take unlawfully, more...



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