Synonyms for lawlessness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : law-lis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɔ lɪs

Définition of lawlessness

Origin : c.1200, lawelese (see law + -less) Related: Lawlessly; lawlessness.

noun anarchy

Example sentences :

Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in.
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

But, Pericles, violence and lawlessness—how do we define them?
Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon

Consequently there was a striking opportunity for lawlessness.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

There was, nevertheless, plenty of lawlessness of the new kind.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

That's how your money-making is justified here in the face of lawlessness and disorder.
Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad

The worn-out, typewritten-out Ollie pleaded against Prue's lawlessness.
Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes

Contrast, indeed, constituted the one law of her lawlessness.
Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter

Then I began to search for the laws regulating its lawlessness.
Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore

Yet it would be easy to overstate the lawlessness of the Panhandle.
Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine

The daily newspaper lives on commotion, crime, lawlessness in general.
Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome

Antonyms for lawlessness

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