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What is the difference between illegal and unlawful and illicit ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between illegal and unlawful and illicit ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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There's no definitional or connotative difference. おなじです。
Illicit is usually used as a noun-modifier: "illicit behavior" or "illicit drugs".
Unlawful mostly refers to behaviors or acts. "Unlawful trespassing," for instance.
But @starry-chan is right: "illegal" is the most common and is pretty universal ("illegal drugs", "illegal trespassing", "illegal behavior"... すべてが大丈夫です。)
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Yeah. In my whole life, I have almost never used the words "illicit" or "unlawful." I usually only hear them in places like news articles.
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