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unofficially

adv. Not officially

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unofficially
  1. adv. without official authorization; "he had made some money on the side" [syn: on the side]

  2. not in an official capacity; "unofficially, he serves as the treasurer" [ant: officially]

Usage examples of "unofficially".

Unofficially, if interested, James Boulin Chartwell, III, holds for you.

State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.

Mind you, Detective Sergeant Glass is still asking questions, unofficially of course, since the inquest.

Philippus-looking brown and extremely fit-had arrived from Sardinia, unofficially convoked the Senate, and browbeaten that cowed body into voting nonexistent public funds to give back to Sulla what the State had taken away.

For over a year I had been unofficially investigating unsolved murders in Southeast, many of them Jane Does.

But they are not a part of what is unofficially called the Anglo French Empire, which technically includes only France, England, Scotland, and Ireland.

The dogs trained unofficially, on the other hand, did not experience any stress because they were taught to do something that seemed both natural and fun.

State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.

Officers were unofficially discouraged from viewership, under the theory that it would make their brains soft.

And from the moment that the Senate had been unofficially apprised by Nani that the terrible Interdict was already printed and would presently be fulminated, every possible precaution of self-defense had been put in operation throughout the dominions of Venice, with an ingenuity, a foresight, and a celerity which the watching courts of Europe not only viewed with amazement, but accepted as an evidence of the conscious power and justice of the Republic.

Dana, Doctor Wald is officially our chief engineer, unofficially our director of research.

Unofficially, I can tell you that unless other data come to light that disproves her analysis, the charges will be withdrawn on Monday.

At the same time, the sharpshooters yielded their snipers' nests to agents armed with 500-pound pull crossbows - an elite group that soon would take to unofficially calling itself the Company of St George, after the medieval crossbow society that once protected the English sovereign.

Even so, some petty officers in the give and take of heavy labour on board ship might have dealt with the situation unofficially, but not Mayne.

At Lujan’s insistance, they had authorized him to monitor things from a distance, unofficially, and to take all necessary action if the situation called for it.