scofflaw

Example Sentences

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Stellantis parking scofflaws today don’t receive a fine and are typically let off with a warning, employees say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Middleton said Uni High has found ways of identifying scofflaws.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025

These scofflaws steal more than $100 million from the city each year, and that doesn’t even count the foregone state tolls on bridges, tunnels, and highways!

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2024

And the water board was powerless to do anything but impose its largest possible punishment: a fine of $500 per day of illegal diversion, split among the 80 or so scofflaws.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Cook's group took their name from this statute, since they were determined to transform this powerful but rather theoretical Act of Congress into a real-life engine of legal destruction against computer fraudsters and scofflaws.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce