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lawless
adjective as in reckless, ungoverned
Weak matches
- anarchical
- anarchistic
- bad
- contumacious
- criminal
- despotic
- disobedient
- disordered
- disorderly
- evil
- fierce
- heterodox
- infringing
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- mutinous
- nihilistic
- noncompliant
- nonconformist
- piratical
- rebellious
- recusant
- revolutionary
- riotous
- savage
- seditious
- tempestuous
- terrorizing
- traitorous
- tyrannous
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- unorthodox
- unpeaceful
- unrestrained
- untamed
- warlike
- wild
Example Sentences
Shopkeepers say Edinburgh's Royal Mile has become "lawless" with smash-and-grab thieves stealing thousands of pounds' worth of goods in recent months.
Gangs in Haiti have capitalised on the power vacuum and expanded their control over swathes of the country, which has effectively been rendered lawless in places.
In 2020, she called him a “lawless” president who wants to be an “authoritarian leader.”
The report portrayed the unpaid base as an almost lawless entity, describing hostile power struggles with staff and near-total impunity.
“I’ve been in a lawless state,” he said, referring to his childhood in Iran.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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