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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
“This is a lawless, repeat offender administration that keeps breaking the law,” he said.
Critics have described the attacks as “lawless,” coming outside any theater of war and explicitly directed at civilians.
Breyer left no stone unturned in detailing the president’s lawless deployment of troops and his plan to turn the military into a national police force answerable only to him.
Kitsch says his character is the opposite — he’s a wild card and more lawless.
It argues that there is no precedent for flag-burning “conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action,” and that “fighting words” aren’t “constitutionally protected.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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