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Sued vs Illegality - What's the difference?

sued | illegality |

As a verb sued

is (sue).

As a noun illegality is

(legal): the state of being illegal.

sued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sue)
  • Anagrams

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    sue

    English

    Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
  • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
  • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.
  • Derived terms

    * sue for peace

    Anagrams

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    illegality

    English

    Noun

    (illegalities)
  • (legal): the state of being illegal
  • The criminal was aware of the illegality of his act.
  • (legal) (uncountable ): a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law
  • When sued for refusing to pay for services provided by a prostitute, the customer raised the defense of illegality.

    Antonyms

    * legality