Words similar to illicit

Example sentences for: illicit

How can you use “illicit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

officials," gives damning shape and detail to recent news rumblings about illicit Chinese acquisition of U.S. defense technology.
Lola can breathe life back into her injured dad, whose illicit love affair is viewed as if it were a fuzzy video on a tired afternoon soap opera.
The New York Times gives plenty of pagefront property to the storm's aftermath in North Carolina and New Jersey but leads with what is emerging as perhaps the largest source of Medicare fraud: not doctors and hospitals but illicit schemes by the companies hired by the government to administer claims.
The paper points out that this is a landmark development, because while experts have long claimed that nearly one-fourth of all American cigarettes sold overseas get there through smuggling rings, the companies have previously always denied allegations that top executives knew of or were involved in any such alleged illicit traffic.
Instead of decreasing drug use, it has increased the violence connected with illicit drug trafficking, greatly exacerbating the problem of gun violence.