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US
/ˈɫɔfəɫi/
]
[ UK /lˈɔːfəli/ ]
[ UK /lˈɔːfəli/ ]
ADVERB
-
by law; conforming to the law
we are lawfully wedded now -
in a manner acceptable to common custom
you cannot do this legitimately!
How To Use lawfully In A Sentence
- Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
- But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least. Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
- Is there a huge problem with renegade owners unlawfully springing their offending dogs from the doggy jail?
- He proposed she become his lawfully wedded wife.
- The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care. Weekly Mishmash: April 18-24 : Scrubbles.net
- She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
- As to the second kind of adjuration, which is by compulsion, we may lawfully use it for some purposes, and not for others. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Everyone has got the right to protest but it has to be done peacefully and lawfully.
- Whenever one person is lawfully in the custody of another, the custodian owes a duty of care to the detainee.
- we are lawfully wedded now