OUTLAWRY Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

outlawry

noun

Definition of outlawry

as in criminality

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Recent Examples of outlawry Because, until the law learns to bend, robots as actors will remain in a no man’s land of outlawry. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Plot summary The movie is set in Chicago in the 1930s, a time of economic deprivation and bold gangsterism and outlawry. — Alison Eldridge, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Election experts have said many instances of noncitizens registering to vote are a result of administrative error or confusion on the part of the immigrant — not intentional criminality.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Investigators, however, believe there was no criminality and that the cause was an electrical fire in one of the fifth-floor apartments.

— Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of criminality

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Within 36 hours one of the prisoners had an apparent mental breakdown, and on the second day the inmates staged a rebellion.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
In their utopian reconstruction of a mythic past, the Agrarians’ polemics failed to mention the South’s legacies of slavery and rebellion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of rebellion

Noun

Its leader, Sergei Mironov, 73, once gained headlines by posing with a symbol of brutality — a sledgehammer given to him by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner mercenary leader shortly before his failed 2023 mutiny.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Step aboard the Grampus, a whaleship gone adrift after a storm, rations running out and a violent mutiny, and learn what happened to its ghost whalers.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of mutiny

Noun

The revolution was an intimate one, grounded in a simple vision of heaven as a place for dancing cheek to cheek.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
Most employees work on the technology in one form or another as Nadella pivots the software giant to win the enterprise and cloud computing parts of the AI revolution.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolution

Noun

Gavras’s previous film, the magnificent Athena, was an action epic and family tragedy about an uprising at a French housing project.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
But Qaddafi’s military forces were decisively defeated by Western airpower and his objective of crushing a popular uprising by force was rendered impossible.

— Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of uprising

Noun

The unrest culminated in rioting and looting over the weekend, with officials estimating that the damages could be worth hundreds of millions of euros.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
France has had two consecutive quiet nights since the weekend’s unrest.

— Samuel Petrequin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of unrest

Noun

But then shipping disruptions, rising fuel costs, and steep international tariffs made exporting increasingly difficult, prompting Yu to turn her attention to building a domestic market.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Ukraine experienced several disruptions with its Starshield satellite network in recent history.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of disruption

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