lawful
Use Lawful in a sentence
fəl adjective
3.
appointed or recognized by law; legally qualified: a lawful king.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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| —adj | |
| allowed, recognized, or sanctioned by law; legal | |
| 'lawfully | |
| —adv | |
| 'lawfulness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
In the way that a lawful evil dictatorship will always be preferable to a chaotic evil anarchy, cynicism gives us bright lines.
After the decision, it's not so easy to argue that the underlying act of file sharing is lawful.
There are still lawful restrictions on the type of spending corporations may engage in, and the way the advertising must occur.
It is no longer lawful to construct barracks to cover the whole of a lot.
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