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lawful
/ ˈɔːʊ /
adjective
- allowed, recognized, or sanctioned by law; legal
Derived Forms
- ˈɴڳܱԱ, noun
- ˈɴڳܱ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- fܱ· adverb
- fܱ·Ա noun
- ·fܱ adjective
- pre·fܱ· adverb
- pre·fܱ·Ա noun
- ܲȴ-fܱ adjective
- quasi-fܱ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Instead it is using our nation’s foundational civil rights law as a pretext to coerce states into abandoning efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through lawful programs and policies.”
At the same time judges, backed by the higher courts, have removed the right of protestors to claim they had a "lawful excuse" for their actions in the vast majority of protest cases.
A 48-year-old woman from Australia Road, White City Estate, London, has been charged with preventing a lawful and decent burial of a dead body and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Trump is attempting to deny birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, to babies born to parents who aren’t citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Under Trump’s proposal, babies born in this country would not be deemed U.S. citizens if neither the mother nor the father was a citizen or a lawful permanent resident at the time of the birth.
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