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lawlessness

noun as in anarchy

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Panic over lawlessness in San Francisco drove the progressive Boudin’s ouster two years ago, even though crime rates fell while he was in office.

Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos.

From Salon

But Garcia doesn’t understand why routine lawlessness in the area is generally tolerated by authorities.

Studies show no link between immigration and lawlessness.

Like a harbinger of some twisted future, he speaks of a purge—a single, merciless day of reckoning — where lawlessness would be met with brutal reprisal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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