Contraband [adjective]

Definition of Contraband:

black-market; unlawful

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Sentence/Example of Contraband:

Then came a half-century where the bookstores and theaters had nothing but l’art de la femme, and old-­timers like you swapped drives full of contraband hip-hop and novels with the corners worn off.

A lawyer for the Department of Corrections denied those claims of mistreatment and said the search was necessary to keep the facility safe from contraband.

Newsham said no contraband was found and no serious crimes had been reported in the area at the time.

So far as the right or wrong of having contraband whisky was concerned, I don't think any one gave it a second thought.

He accuses the latter of various illegal and crafty acts, among them sending contraband gold and jewels to Mexico.

The progress of the woollen manufactures of Ireland excited even more alarm and indignation than the contraband trade with France.

Ginger-beer could also be procured, and there were suspicions that the bottles so called contained something contraband.

Their merchants, especially in New England, carried on a brisk and extremely profitable contraband trade.

They are also sent into the United States, notwithstanding the trade is contraband.

Meanwhile it had proved its mettle by taking a French contraband schooner and carrying her into Newport for adjudication.