All legalization antonyms
le·gal·ize
L l noun legalization
- criminalization — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
- refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
- award — An award is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well.
- reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- partiality — the state or character of being partial.
- unfairness — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- illegality — illegal condition or quality; unlawfulness.
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
- idleness — the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
- veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- protest — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- grounding — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.