unlegally

English

Etymology

From unlegal +‎ -ly. Piecewise doublet of unloyally.

Adverb

unlegally (comparative more unlegally, superlative most unlegally)

  1. Not in a legal sense.
    • 1839, John Henry Barrow, The Mirror of Parliament for the Second Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland (page 2509)
      The Attorney General uses the word "outlaw" as poets or romancers might use it, unlegally and inaccurately.
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