What is "ill-gotten gains"

Usage examples of "ill-gotten gains".

Shada returns the slaves to Ryloth while Fenig and Ghitsa fly off into the stars with their ill-gotten gains.

While he hovered in the high branches and watched, three of the robbers took out some of their ill-gotten gains and began gaming for them with carved bones.

The notice prevents the bad guys from arguing that nobody told them they were required to report their ill-gotten gains.

And it is nice to have somewhere to spend the ill-gotten gains afterward, and something to buy with them besides moss and stones.

We've been diverting some of their ill-gotten gains into our weapons-procurement fund.

So we just wait for them to bury the ill-gotten gains, then we move in, dig it up and carry it off.

He arrived home with his ill-gotten gains feeling much, much betterexcept that Mignureal was in bed with Cajico and covered, her back turned, and she would not turn over or speak a word.

Did Wintrow think it right that men such as Avery and his backers be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains?

Pirates like Angus and Nick would never exist - and the UMCP in turn would have no mandate to combat them - unless they had a market for their ill-gotten gains.