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breachful

breachful

English

Adjective

breachful

  1. (rare) Involving or characterized by a violation of law, of legal rights, or of other rules governing conduct.
    • 1990, West's Federal Supplement (First Series), Volume 742, p. 774 (Google snippet view):
      Acts and talk that induce breachful conduct (such as a refusal to negotiate with or participate in bouts sponsored by one's promoter) may be tortious.
    • 2007 May 19, Shamsuddin Choudhury, "Did British Airways go wrong?: A lawyer's point of view," Law & our rights, issue 20, thedailystar.net (retrieved 29 Oct 2015):
      When a term of a contract is breached, whether the term is a warranty or a condition, the innocent party earns a right to be repaired for the damage he suffers as a consequence of the other party's breachful action or omission.
    • 2009 April 6, Doug Mesner, "Reading, Writing, Transcendent Levitation," process.org (retrieved 29 Oct 2015):
      William Goldstein, General Counsel for The David Lynch Foundation, sent Knapp an email strongly advising caution: “we intend to review the global web presentation for any false, defamatory, tortious, breachful, malicious or otherwise unlawful statements or materials made or published by you or the presenters.”
    • 2014 May 6, Lexi Taylor, "How To Monitor Someones Texts From Your iPhone?," MobieSpy (retrieved 29 Oct 2015):
      [S]neaking into someone’s personal communications is considered as a breachful act.