unlegally

English

Etymology

From unlegal +‎ -ly. Piecewise doublet of unloyally.

Adverb

unlegally (comparative more unlegally, superlative most unlegally)

1. Not in a legal sense.
   • 1839, John Henry Barrow, The Mirror of Parliament for the Second Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, page 2509:

     The Attorney General uses the word "outlaw" as poets or romancers might use it, unlegally and inaccurately.