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lawless
adjective as in reckless, ungoverned
Weak matches
- anarchical
- anarchistic
- bad
- contumacious
- criminal
- despotic
- disobedient
- disordered
- disorderly
- evil
- fierce
- heterodox
- infringing
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- mutinous
- nihilistic
- noncompliant
- nonconformist
- piratical
- rebellious
- recusant
- revolutionary
- riotous
- savage
- seditious
- tempestuous
- terrorizing
- traitorous
- tyrannous
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- unorthodox
- unpeaceful
- unrestrained
- untamed
- warlike
- wild
Example Sentences
Khrushchev angrily rejected Kennedy’s right to impose a quarantine, comparing Americans to lawless pirates.
A Reform UK spokesman said the report was proof "that Britain is lawless".
No state suffered more from the Biden team’s lawless war on fossil fuels than Alaska.
Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners -- many of them Chinese -- who often say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry.
Experts say most of the centres, notorious for their romance scams and "pig butchering" investment cons, are run by Chinese-led crime syndicates working with Myanmar militias in the lawless badlands of the Golden Triangle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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