legal
adjective
allowed by the law
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Legal and honest
as clean as a whistle
completely honest or legal
on the right/wrong side of the law
doing legal/illegal things
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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