warrantlessly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From warrantless + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]warrantlessly (not comparable)
- Without a warrant, especially a search warrant
- 1976, Charles E. Moylan, The Right of the People to be Secure: An Examination of ...[1], page 279:
- The prisoner complains that one private detective named Holmes, working with Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard, warrantlessly searched a hut and enclosed tunnel on property belonging to the late Henry Stapleton, et ux.