Synonyms of smuggled

smuggled 1 of 2

adjective

as in contraband

Related Words

• contraband
• unauthorized
• unlicensed
• unapproved
• unsanctioned
• bootleg
• illicit
• under-the-table
• illegal
• criminal
• prohibited
• improper
• under-the-counter
• forbidden
• felonious
• wrongful
• unlawful
• outlawed
• proscribed
• disallowed
• barred
• banned
• interdicted
• illegitimate
• criminalized
• discouraged

Dissimilar Words

• permitted
• licensed
• authorized
• allowed
• approved
• endorsed
• promoted
• supported
• correct
• suggested
• proper
• sanctioned
• legal
• legitimate
• lawful
• decent
• encouraged
• abetted
• decorous
• seemly

smuggled

2 of 2

verb

past tense of smuggle

as in sold

to move (people or goods) from one country to another secretly and illegally

They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.

Related Words

• sold
• distributed
• supplied
• bought
• bootlegged
• exchanged
• purchased
• bartered
• resold
• swapped
• fenced
• negotiated
• auctioned
• transacted
• bargained
• took
• marketed
• black-marketed
• peddled
• merchandised
• retailed
• horse-traded
• traded
• rebought
• vended
• monopolized
• engrossed
• cornered
• picked up
• wholesaled
• trafficked
• speculated
• fair-traded
• undersold
• dealt
• invested
• day-traded

Dissimilar Words

• boycotted
• blacked
• blackballed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of smuggled

Adjective

The smuggled animals, which were imported from both Hong Kong and Mexico without permits, included Mexican beaded lizards, Mexican box turtles and Yucatan box turtles and baby crocodiles, prosecutors said. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 31 May 2026

Lang calls Atterton, who’s in his prison cell with a smuggled phone, to tell him the job is done and that both Bailey-Brown and Sam have been terminated. — Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Mar. 2026

Writs of assistance were open‑ended search warrants granted to British customs officers to search for smuggled goods; they were not limited by time, person, or location, and no probable cause was required. — Amanda Cats-Baril, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026

The smuggled fungus, Fusarium graminearum, can cause billions in crop losses and is harmful to humans and livestock. — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025

Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said. — Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025

Inevitably, a few students were surreptitiously checking smuggled screens that day. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025

Verb

Large quantities of gold have been smuggled out of the country to finance the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, who control gold-producing areas in Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to experts commissioned by the United Nations. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Large quantities of gold have been smuggled out of the country to finance the RSF, which controls gold-producing areas in the Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to experts commissioned by the United Nations. — Yasir Abdallah, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Massive stockpiles of methamphetamine smuggled onto the islands by cartels have seeped into the local communities, spurring a widespread addiction crisis and straining the local health system. — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026

The first operation, in June, led authorities to a box truck carrying some 2,000 animals, a mix of reptiles, fish and invertebrates that were being smuggled for sale on the black market. — John Donegan Long Beach Post, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026

To everyone’s chagrin, Taylor has smuggled Ben into her penthouse hotel room. — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

These refugees are not merely smuggled or trafficked victims. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Euronews said that some of the materials were smuggled into Egypt inside cosmetics containers. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026

Trump had just flown back from a NATO summit in Ankara; he’d been smuggled out of Turkey via a catering truck and a decoy plane after Iranian threats on his life. — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026