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ill-gotten

ill-gotten adjective: obtained improperly or illegally.

Adjective

ill-gotten (not comparable)

  1. Obtained improperly or illegally.
    • The sultan's men got the message: he and his successors exiled out-of-favour amirs to Jerusalem where they were expected to spend their ill-gotten wealth on sumptuous complexes that contained palaces, madrassas and tombs.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 335

ill-gotten meaning in Tamil

ill-gotten in Tamil

தகாவழியில் ஈட்டிய, தீய வழியில் ஈட்டப்பட்ட

Words formed from ill-gotten

Questions about ill-gotten

What does ill-gotten mean?
Ill-gotten means obtained improperly or illegally.
What is ill-gotten in Tamil?
Ill-gotten in Tamil is தகாவழியில் ஈட்டிய, தீய வழியில் ஈட்டப்பட்ட. See Ill-gotten meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill-gotten?
Ill-gotten is an adjective.

Words near ill-gotten in the dictionary

  1. ill-formedness
  2. ill-fortune
  3. ill-fortunes
  4. ill-founded
  5. ill-got gains
  6. ill-gotten
  7. ill-gotten gains
  8. ill-gotten gains never prosper
  9. ill-groomed
  10. ill-grounded
  11. ill-health

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-gotten (page history and authors); ill-gotten (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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