Wiktionary
a. Of partial or questionable legality.
Usage examples of "semilegal".
Finally she attempted to steal a controlling interest by a complex semilegal and unethical device, believing that George would be unable to bring himself to expose it because of the damage such exposure would do to the company and the partnership.
In addition to handling electronic and hardcopy messages, local branches of the giant communications firm made convenient, no-questions-asked cash drops for all sorts of legal and semilegal business exchanges.
It was six or seven blocks before he finally found a semilegal parking spot on a side street off Riverside.
I had to circle the block before I snagged a semilegal spot half a block away.
With nearly infinite wealth, personal protection fields and the availability of semilegal means to fulfill even the darkest fantasies, there was very little opportunity or need to cause it.
After four years of playing the semilegal clubs of East Berlin, everyone in the group was thrown in prison by the Stasi, but they were let out a year later, just in time to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Little better than semilegal pirates, they were usually small, fast craft designed for the twin purposes of capturing enemy commercial shipping and avoiding enemy warships.
There was a legal term for it, with a number of semilegal implications.