What's the difference between bootlegger and illegal?

Bootlegger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were bootleggers after prohibition ended, for a little while, but not for long.
  • (2) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
  • (3) "S&P complaining about the US budget deficit is like Al Capone dumping on bootleggers," said Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research.
  • (4) Gumbel and Costa are Jewish, and Welby himself was the child of a broken home whose father, it emerged long after his death, turned out to have been a German Jew named Weiler who took the name of Gavin Welby when he was working as a bootlegger in New York.
  • (5) Some had inlays featuring band photos photocopied on to brightly coloured card, and many were made by a notorious bootlegger called Big Al.
  • (6) Nor did it seem to strike anyone as much of a contradiction that Orkney's principal bootlegger was also an elder of the kirk; indeed, he would cycle there every Sunday and distribute contraceptives to the young men of the congregation on the way home.
  • (7) Bootleggers This “dude food” diner – elaborate burger menu; skulls and shipping pallets stuck on the walls; confrontational slogans scrawled in the gents – doubles as a rather good bar.
  • (8) The bootlegger would go up the front of the gigs with a WM-D6C machine – a 1980s Sony recording Walkman model, with Dolby C noise reduction – and put his head in the stacks, Macdonald recalls.
  • (9) Prince has abandoned plans to sue 22 alleged bootleggers of his material.
  • (10) The Gulf cartel was founded by an old whiskey bootlegger from the 1930s, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra and his nephew, Juan García Ábrego, who became the first drug trafficker to make the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
  • (11) "I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong."
  • (12) Then we basically spent the next four years in our room at boarding school making two-man League of Gentlemen knock-offs like Chinese bootleggers.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He's the ultimate rarities artist Taylor: "I've given a lot of money to bootleggers over the years.
  • (14) But now everybody is a bootlegger and not so cute as before and there are people out there just stealing stuff and saying, ‘Don’t try to force me to pay,’ and that act of thieving will become a habit, and that’s bad for everybody.” He said musicians who had previously suffered at the hands of record labels and executives who had taken all the profits were now being penalised by the digitally empowered public.

Illegal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (3) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (4) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (5) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (6) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
  • (7) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
  • (8) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
  • (9) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (10) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
  • (11) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (12) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
  • (13) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
  • (14) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (15) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
  • (16) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
  • (17) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
  • (18) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
  • (19) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
  • (20) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.

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