scofflaw

Example Sentences

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This means the scofflaw company can profitably expand while the complying company cannot, putting honest taxpayers at a competitive disadvantage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025

“Under Musk’s control, Twitter has become a scofflaw, stiffing employees, landlords, vendors, and others,” says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

But they also thrust Britain into a nasty web of legal disputes that risks making the country look like an international scofflaw.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

Like the majority of people in this law-abiding country, Vize had little sympathy for the superstar scofflaw but also believed Australia’s government had tried to exploit the situation, only to make a mess of it.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2022

In all truth, these talented, hardworking, law-abiding, mature, adult people are far more disturbing to the peace and order of the current status quo than any scofflaw group of romantic teenage punk kids.

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