infract
Example Sentences
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It's a fixture that inverts the stereotypical differences between north and south, and proves that opposites infract.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2013
But even after recreation, with that day's lessons safely out, punished and expiated, Pupasse's doom seemed scarcely lightened; there was still a whole criminal code of conduct to infract.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
Petter," said he, "I don't ask you to infract your rules.
From The Squirrel Inn by Stockton, Frank Richard
"But he will never venture to infract the neutrality of the waters surely," rejoined I, "within sight of the squadron too?"
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
These feudal tenures were established in law; woe to the tenant who presumed to infract them!
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
