unlawfulness
- n the quality of failing to conform to law
- But it also a license to do good; to disclose injustice and unlawfulness and inequities; and to encourage their swift correction.
- The derailment last week of Linda Chavez's nomination as Labor Secretary refocused attention on the unlawfulness of harboring or employing illegal immigrants.
- Says Kolakowski ironically: "A social system based on unlawfulness, oppression and unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances .