lawful
recognized or sanctioned by law; legitimate: a lawful marriage; a lawful heir.
Origin of lawful
1Other words for lawful
Other words from lawful
- law·ful·ly, adverb
- law·ful·ness, noun
- pre·law·ful, adjective
- pre·law·ful·ly, adverb
- pre·law·ful·ness, noun
- quasi-lawful, adjective
- qua·si-law·ful·ly, adverb
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How to use lawful in a sentence
“Better to put those voters on notice now while they still have at least some time to adjust their plans and cast their votes in an unquestionably lawful way.”
Appeals court panel rules Minnesota must set aside ballots received after Election Day in case they are invalidated | Aaron Davis | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostThis is often done at night from boats, but also from jetties and breakwalls where lawful.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn another development last year, Ireland’s DPC opened an investigation into Google’s online Ad Exchange — looking into the lawful basis for its processing of personal data.
IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard | Natasha Lomas | October 16, 2020 | TechCrunchOr, Google says, publishers can use the “legitimate interest” lawful basis for processing personal data under the GDPR.
Publishers and ad tech vendors find Google’s new ‘Limited Ads’ feature to be, well, limited | Lara O'Reilly | October 2, 2020 | Digidaylawful but could not have been avoided, not lawful but awful.
Houston’s Police Chief on How to Stop ‘Lawful but Awful’ Policing | Joshua Eferighe | September 30, 2020 | Ozy
The DEA will continue to work with state officials so the state can lawfully obtain the seeds.
But these groups, however passionately they believed in their cause, never imagined themselves to be acting lawfully.
Dreamers, he says, “are considered to be lawfully present despite lacking valid immigration status.”
Gov. Jan Brewer Battles Obama’s DREAM Directive in Arizona | Terry Greene Sterling | August 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThanks to the Obama directive, Dreamers soon will be lawfully present.
Gov. Jan Brewer Battles Obama’s DREAM Directive in Arizona | Terry Greene Sterling | August 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSo they panicked, threatened, and at times practically assaulted me—all for playing lawfully.
Online Casinos Run by New York, Other States Will Target Gambling Addicts | Josh Axelrad | January 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBesides, each one who lawfully vows to God, in vowing discharges a function of a loyal subject of God's government.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamThe latter are countenanced by no class of vows lawfully made, either in Old Testament times or in a later period.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamRelief from the poor rates can only lawfully be given in cases where persons are destitute of the means of support.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbThey refused to make one who had been lawfully apprenticed to the trade in Shrewsbury free of their company.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertYou shall have this girl; but lawfully, openly, with the sanction of Heaven and your parents.
Two Men of Sandy Bar | Bret Harte
British Dictionary definitions for lawful
/ (ˈlɔːfʊl) /
allowed, recognized, or sanctioned by law; legal
Derived forms of lawful
- lawfully, adverb
- lawfulness, noun
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