Definition of lawless
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lawlessly
adverb
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Examples of lawless in a Sentence
the lawless society of the frontier
the lawless rioters were destroying everything in sight
Recent Examples of lawless from the Web
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The Senate on Wednesday voted 51-47 to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s auto-lending rule, which was as much a referendum on Democratic identity politics as lawless regulation.
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The troubled district of Tillaberi sits at Niger’s border with Mali, a lawless area where the central government has struggled to assert control.
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The Division posits a plausible terror: a biological attack on Manhattan that turns the New York City borough into a lawless dead zone.
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In the early 1990s, New York had a reputation for being a lawless city where whole neighborhoods were branded no go zones.
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Deadly riots are common in Venezuela's lawless prisons, where inmates often openly wield machine guns and use drugs.
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Staffers are approaching the post-Hicks era with trepidation, unsure what to expect in a lawless White House with a president who thrives on chaos and resents authority, process and order.
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Events like these could go from bad to worse in a society growing increasingly lawless as the government eased its control over the people.
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Libya has become a lawless state in which fragmented armed groups kill and torture with impunity, the U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) has said, seven years after a revolution toppled dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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First Known Use of lawless
12th century
lawless Synonyms
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
ethical, good, just, principled, right, righteous, virtuous;
approved, endorsed (also indorsed), sanctioned;
Related Words
bad, evil, immoral, shameful, sinful, unethical, wicked, wrong;
blamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensible;
banned, barred, contraband, criminalized, disallowed, discouraged, forbidden, interdicted, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed;
bootleg, unauthorized, unlicensed, unsanctioned;
LAWLESS Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of lawless for English Language Learners
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: having no laws
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: not obeying the law
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