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Definition of lawless in English: lawlessadjective ˈlɔːləsˈlɔləs Not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order. 不受法律制约的；不守法的 it was a lawless, anarchic city 这是一个无法无天的城市。 Example sentencesExamples - The threat of prosecution is the only way to end their lawless behaviour.
- Parks has complained that the investigation and prosecutions of lawless cops is moving too slowly.
- They are tired of the lawless hell that exists inside the city and are literally willing to have us rubble it to save it.
- He was told to go and assert British law over the lawless whalers, sealers, timber merchants, and other settlers.
- It's but a thin red line that separates the lawful from the lawless.
- Was he simply an illicit fantasist running amok in a lawless land, as the prosecution alleged?
- Other sources mention Vlad's determination to bring order in lawless times.
- Whereas in the Taliban regime it seemed pretty lawless, from the descriptions.
- Jury nullification is not lawless because it is simply is not prohibited by law.
- This just gave them an opportunity to turn more of the city into the lawless chaos they tend to drag with them where ever they go.
- If something similar happened in an inner city school there would be an outcry about lawless youngsters embracing a culture of violence.
- He agrees that the United States does indeed act like a sheriff trying to enforce justice in a lawless world.
- When family circumstances allow, I too will exit this crumbling and lawless city.
- They want nothing so much as to be protected from the lawless violence of his undisciplined war bands.
- I'm not surprised that this society is becoming increasingly lawless when magistrates are giving out such small fines.
- What tests or considerations are to guide the jury in determining when he may reasonably become lawless?
- Yet the society has descended from being marginally lawless to one in which the outlaws outnumber the law-abiding.
- There can be no simple military solution to a threat hidden away in dozens of cities and lawless areas around the world.
- The police consider the area lawless and refuse to provide protection for the community.
- The modern day rulers of this lawless land, like the nobility of old, prosecute the juiciest targets.
Synonyms anarchic, anarchical, disorderly, ungovernable, unruly, without law and order, disruptive, insurrectionary, insurgent, revolutionary, rebellious, insubordinate, riotous, mutinous, mutinying, seditious, revolting, terrorist illegal, unlawful, lawbreaking, illicit, illegitimate, criminal, felonious, indictable, delinquent, culpable, villainous, transgressing, violating informal crooked, shady, bent archaic miscreant
Derivativesadverb In a way, it is a sort of Western, the story of Americans advancing into an empty desert, living lawlessly, excessively, violently, and being punished for their transgressions. Example sentencesExamples - Congress should expand its investigation of the Justice Department, monitoring how it is defining torture in various cases, and checking to make sure that it is not doing so lawlessly.
- Suddenly allowing religions to act lawlessly does not seem like such a good idea.
- But if people in general are skeptical about these things, they may end up behaving lawlessly and immorally.
Definition of lawless in US English: lawlessadjectiveˈlôləsˈlɔləs Not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order. 不受法律制约的；不守法的 it was a lawless, anarchic city 这是一个无法无天的城市。 Example sentencesExamples - The modern day rulers of this lawless land, like the nobility of old, prosecute the juiciest targets.
- What tests or considerations are to guide the jury in determining when he may reasonably become lawless?
- Whereas in the Taliban regime it seemed pretty lawless, from the descriptions.
- Yet the society has descended from being marginally lawless to one in which the outlaws outnumber the law-abiding.
- Other sources mention Vlad's determination to bring order in lawless times.
- He was told to go and assert British law over the lawless whalers, sealers, timber merchants, and other settlers.
- Was he simply an illicit fantasist running amok in a lawless land, as the prosecution alleged?
- He agrees that the United States does indeed act like a sheriff trying to enforce justice in a lawless world.
- They want nothing so much as to be protected from the lawless violence of his undisciplined war bands.
- They are tired of the lawless hell that exists inside the city and are literally willing to have us rubble it to save it.
- If something similar happened in an inner city school there would be an outcry about lawless youngsters embracing a culture of violence.
- There can be no simple military solution to a threat hidden away in dozens of cities and lawless areas around the world.
- This just gave them an opportunity to turn more of the city into the lawless chaos they tend to drag with them where ever they go.
- It's but a thin red line that separates the lawful from the lawless.
- Parks has complained that the investigation and prosecutions of lawless cops is moving too slowly.
- I'm not surprised that this society is becoming increasingly lawless when magistrates are giving out such small fines.
- Jury nullification is not lawless because it is simply is not prohibited by law.
- The threat of prosecution is the only way to end their lawless behaviour.
- The police consider the area lawless and refuse to provide protection for the community.
- When family circumstances allow, I too will exit this crumbling and lawless city.
Synonyms anarchic, anarchical, disorderly, ungovernable, unruly, without law and order, disruptive, insurrectionary, insurgent, revolutionary, rebellious, insubordinate, riotous, mutinous, mutinying, seditious, revolting, terrorist illegal, unlawful, lawbreaking, illicit, illegitimate, criminal, felonious, indictable, delinquent, culpable, villainous, transgressing, violating
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