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lawbreaking

NOUN
felony
Synonyms


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The First Amendment protects the right to advocate such lawbreaking, but a nonprofit that enjoys tax privileges can lose those privileges for supporting unlawful conduct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

The House Ethics Committee said it had amassed “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Santos that had been sent to the Justice Department.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

It also found that several high-level company officials lied to the administrative law judge to hide the company’s lawbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

"No individual, regardless of their position or stature, should be exempt from legal scrutiny for lawbreaking," the letter furthered.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

For orderly and law-abiding people the disorderly and lawbreaking people always have an immense fascination anyhow.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)




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