What's the difference between legit and licit?

Legit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I got to hear that NI had called it legit too, by that stage I'd entered 'what the hell' territory and thought I'd just carry on and see where it went, seeing as Twitter had already verified it.
  • (2) (Not that his prospects for winning were any good – an actual, legit poll has Corbett down 17% with less than a month before Election Day .)
  • (3) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
  • (4) We fact-checked, it was all legit …" he trails off.
  • (5) The choice between pirated and legit content is a combination of ease-of-use, pricing and availability on a given market.
  • (6) Now, if it was Phoenix, Winnipeg, Edmonton, etc... yeah, legit "argument".
  • (7) Photograph: Rex Features The 90s hip-hop star who gave us songs like Can't Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit has been in the tech investment game for some time, although he hasn't had much luck.
  • (8) He reportedly turned down an invitation to host NBC’s Meet the Press , so it’s unlikely that he will want to provide jokes on a more “legit” broadcast, and certainly not one mired in a scandal.
  • (9) January 10, 2017 “Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing that might or might not be true, without supporting evidence; decide for yourself if it’s legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today.
  • (10) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
  • (11) It looks legit to us," CIA spokesperson Marie Harf says in an email.
  • (12) Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something "meaningful" arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true.
  • (13) "Totally legal and legit and my accountants and advisers would take care to complete the formalities which included dealing with HMRC.
  • (14) If you think the very concept of marriage is hot garbage, that’s legit.
  • (15) Some television angles, however, suggest that his feet were legit, with only his jutting torso breaching the rules, and no linesman should raise the flag for that.
  • (16) In a statement on her website after it emerged that she was one of a number of well-known names who were part of the Liberty tax scheme, she said it was presented to her by financial advisers in 2008 as "legal and legit".
  • (17) The online portal continues: While the process of registering the flight numbers of crashed aircraft might be completely legit, and Seyefull Investments Ltd might actually succeed in their attempt to make money off any mention of "MH17" and "MH370", it still remains a fact that this is an ugly, opportunistic attempt at cashing in on the suffering and pain of thousands of grieving family members and millions of people worldwide - not to mention the ended lives of the hundreds of people on board both doomed jetliners.
  • (18) The abandonment of the Production Code in 1968 opened the floodgates for sex to migrate from dirty theatres to more legit venues.
  • (19) Leaning against the wall outside the job centre in an Islington side street the 28-year-old, who lost his position as a security guard at Tesco a year ago, said: "If people can't get money in a legit way they are going to get it in a non-legit way, 100%."
  • (20) My initial response was to tweet: “Fit model is a legit job that needs specific body dimensions.

Licit


Definition:

  • (a.) Lawful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pregnancy and neonatal outcome were compared to a group of drug-free controls who had no history or evidence of licit or illicit drug use.
  • (2) An intertrochanteric osteotomy, when correctly realised, posed few problems during placement of a total hip prosthesis and licits a continued use in young subjects.
  • (3) Other available forms of cooperation within the United States government to induce foreign states to assure that opium crops are either destroyed or controlled within licit user channels should not be overlooked.
  • (4) The reactivity of the law in assimilating research on exposure of the developing organism to a broad range of neurotoxins, including both licit and illicit drugs, is illustrated.
  • (5) The first is that smoking is related to the use of most other licit and illicit drugs.
  • (6) These data suggest that hair analysis for 6-acetylmorphine can be used to differentiate heroin users from other types of opiate exposure (e.g., poppy seed, licit morphine, and codeine); however, environmental contamination can potentially produce false positives during opiate testing.
  • (7) Most Ss reported use of licit drugs, about one half had tried illicit drugs, and a substantial minority had engaged in other delinquent or criminal activities.
  • (8) The priorities are in many ways commonsense criteria, including prevention of sales to minors, assurances that criminals do not profit from the trade and that markets are restricted to licit channels.
  • (9) Regular use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs was more common in males, while unprescribed use of licit psychotropic drugs prevailed in females.
  • (10) The long-term outcome of these infants is influenced not only by the mother's use of illicit substances but by the frequent additional use of licit substances, such as cigarettes and alcohol.
  • (11) The characteristics of psychotropic medication recipients were compared with those patients who reported no use of licit medications.
  • (12) In Canada, such information may be obtained from a narcotic users index which classifies known narcotic drug users into three categories: "illicit", "licit", and "professional".
  • (13) On the basis of additional information mainly supplied by the DNA donor himself or by his parents the 470 members of the main group M where grouped according to their life-style, into: (1) abstinent people, essentially non-smokers and refraining from use of licit or illicit drugs, sub-group N.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
  • (14) Addiction to licit or illicit drugs usually originates in the conjunction of the use of a substance and a personality crisis, in a propitious socio-cultural context.
  • (15) Two main research axes have been developed: studies in the general population, adolescents or adults, in order to know the general context of licit and illicit psychotropic use in France, and specific studies in detoxification centers in order to describe the characteristics of drug addicts and to evaluate their requirements.
  • (16) Twelve different classes of drugs, both licit and illicit, are examined.
  • (17) Given the fact that most drug users can be expected to opt for self-help materials over the offer of formal therapy, and that most (licit) drug users who solve their addiction problems do so without recourse to professional help anyway, the use of computer-assisted drug prevention programs like these provides an important new direction in substance abuse treatment.
  • (18) Findings on self-reported adolescent licit and illicit substance use are presented based on a nationwide 1984 probability sample of 11,058 Greek adolescent students ages 14-18 years old.
  • (19) Surveys of drug use in pregnancy demonstrate that a significant proportion of human fetuses are exposed to prescription and non-prescription drugs antenatally or during labor, although recently a decrease in licit drug consumption during pregnancy may have occurred.
  • (20) A cross-sectional epidemiologic study was undertaken in 1988 in the city of Le Havre, in order to study the licit and illicit drug consumption of adolescents attending high schools.

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