ill-gotten
adj1
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:
- Derived terms
- ill-gotten gains, ill-gotten gains never prosper, ill-gotten gains never profit, ill-gotten goods never prosper
- Related terms
- ill-begotten