illicitness

Illicitness was the thing that made most of their stock in trade valuable, and they knew it.

He'd had mistresses and never thought twice about the illicitness of his relationships.

In bourgeois marriage, illicitness may have become more formidable and likely to cause tension.

Julian was shocked and then delighted at the whiff of illicitness about the whole affair.

That we dabble no more in this partictilar illicitness!

The aura of illicitness and mystery surrounding absinthe has played into modern literature, movies, music and television.

In 1517, he published a list of 95 Theses, or points to be debated, concerning the illicitness of selling indulgences.

Besides, when you get down to it, isn't it the very illicitness of an affair, the forbidden nature of it, which makes it so exciting?

Although males were allowed to hold hands and kiss in public, homosexuality was frowned upon generally in the Arab world; Asil and Youssef kept the intimate side of their relationship to themselves, the illicitness adding to its deliciousness.

All this gives the cantata a tantalizing sense of illicitness: Maxim Shostakovich has said he recalls hearing his father perform it at home, but one can imagine the guarded circumstances under which the composer would have allowed anyone else to see it.

He arrives at Tarifa, the southernmost point of Europe, 'skulking behind its Arab walls' and moves on into the country, making another stop over in Algericas, a town which he very much likes for its aura of illicitness:

Dr. Roy W. Pickens, director of clinical research at the National Institue on Drug Abuse in Rockville, Md., said carefully controlled studies of crack addicts are impossible because of the illicitness of the drug's use.

The loudest outburst in the common room over the weekend, said participants who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was not about the overturning of another promising rock of illicitness; it was over Sammy Sosa's hitting his 62d home run to pull even with Mark McGwire.