Antonyms for lawbreakers


Grammar : Noun
Spell : law-brey-ker
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɔˌbreɪ kər


Definition of lawbreakers

Origin :
  • also law-breaker, mid-15c., from law + agent noun from break (v.).
  • noun criminal
Example sentences :
  • He viewed the activities of lawbreakers with a sense of personal outrage.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • Here's the latest, hot off the presses, from dreamers and lawbreakers.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • For the lawbreakers, American born or otherwise, we need men to enforce the law.
  • Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
  • The four lawbreakers were quickly out of the house in full chase.
  • Extract from : « The Young Railroaders » by Francis Lovell Coombs
  • You know yourself, Lucy, that in a certain sense the ranchmen are lawbreakers.
  • Extract from : « Justin Wingate, Ranchman » by John H. Whitson
  • This most famous and successful of English lawbreakers was no common criminal.
  • Extract from : « Colonel Thomas Blood » by Wilbur Cortez Abbott
  • He has given us more work to do than any twenty other lawbreakers in Spain.
  • Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them were not lawbreakers, and did not desire to be.
  • Extract from : « Ku Klux Klan » by J. C. Lester
  • They 're breaking the law, and you and I are not willing to be lawbreakers.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dazzler » by Jack London
  • That the only people who were not insulted and sneered at were the lawbreakers themselves.
  • Extract from : « Courts and Criminals » by Arthur Train

Synonyms for lawbreakers

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