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 if these also, the offspring of Wealth, be allowed to come to their prime, quickly they engender in the soul those pitiless tyrants, Violence, and Lawlessness, and Shamelessness.

From On the Sublime by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)