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All legalization antonyms

le·gal·ize
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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.
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