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   Law·less

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   adjective

   • 1. not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order: "a lawless region where peace never really took hold" Similar anarchicanarchicaldisorderlyungovernableunrulywithout law and orderdisruptiveinsurrectionaryinsurgentrevolutionaryrebelliousinsubordinateriotousmutinousmutinyingseditiousrevoltingterroristillegalunlawfullawbreakingillicitillegitimatecriminalfeloniousindictabledelinquentculpablevillainoustransgressingviolatinginformal:crookedshadybentarchaic:miscreantOpposite orderlylaw-abiding

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   • 1. lawlessly adverb

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   What is a lawless city today?

   • A lawless city today is one that's in such chaos that order can't be kept, even by police officers. To be lawless is to be without law, which stems from the Old English lagu, "law or rule." "Lawless."

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   What does it mean to be lawless?

   • Originally, it referred to soldiers marching out of order or quitting the ranks, thus it has the idea of "to be neglectful of duty, to be lawless." [312]

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   What is a lawless society?

   • Such a society transforms individuals who in a state of nature were amoral, lawless, atomized units into moral beings. Undefended and lawless refugee camps create security problems too. The interest you cherish is lawless and unconsecrated. They are also romanticized in folktales as fierce, lawless, and sometimes heroic.

   LAWLESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   What is a lawless action?

   • 1. Unrestrained by any law; not subject to law. The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

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   Learn the meaning of lawless, an adjective that describes something not based on or regulated by law, or not controlled by law. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.

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   Lawless definition: contrary to or without regard for the law. See examples of LAWLESS used in a sentence.

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   Lawless means not controlled by laws, or illegal. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts and see synonyms, antonyms and translations.

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   Lawless means not controlled by laws, or illegal. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in other languages.

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   lawless: 1 adj without law or control Synonyms: anarchic , anarchical uncontrolled not being under control; out of control adj lax in enforcing laws Synonyms: wide-open unlawful contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law adj disobedient to or defiant of law “ lawless bands roaming the plains” Synonyms: outlaw unlawful contrary to or ...

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   Lawless means without law or control, or contrary to the law. Find the origin, usage, and examples of lawless and related words in English and Spanish dictionaries.

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   Lawless means without respect for the law or where laws do not exist or are not obeyed. Learn how to use this adjective with synonyms, pronunciation and example sentences.