lawlessness

Example Sentences

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Lawlessness has soared across Ecuador since the coronavirus pandemic, something outgoing President Guillermo Lasso blames on disputes related to drug trafficking and common crime.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2023

Lawlessness spread over subsequent nights to 22 out of London's 33 boroughs, from Ealing in the west and Croydon in the south.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2021

Lawlessness has long been the rule in Honduras.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2014

Lawlessness subjects such characters to opportunism, and all in all allows for them to create unique worldviews, however ridiculous.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2012

And thus, from the union of the freedom of the real with the restraint of the Good, was born the heroism that released Paradise from the demon of Lawlessness.

From Creative Unity by Tagore, Rabindranath