ill-gotten

English

Adjective

ill-gotten (not comparable)

1. Obtained improperly or illegally.
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 335:

     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.

Derived terms

• ill-gotten gains
• ill-gotten gains never prosper, ill-gotten gains never profit, ill-gotten goods never prosper

Translations

obtained improperly

• French: mal acquis (badly, wrongly acquired)
• Ladino: haram

See also

• ill-begotten

Anagrams

• telling-to