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Adverb: lawfully  lo-fu-lee
  1. In a manner acceptable to common custom
    "you cannot do this lawfully!"
    - legitimately, licitly
     
  2. By law; conforming to the law
    "we are lawfully wedded now"
    - legally, de jure

See also: lawful

Antonym: lawlessly, unlawfully

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