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lawlessness

/law-lis/US // ˈlɔ lɪs //UK // (ˈlɔːlɪs) //

无法无天,不法行为,无法无天的现象,无法无天的情况

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
    • : being without law; uncontrolled by a law; unbridled; unruly; unrestrained: lawless passion.
    • : illegal: bootleggers' lawless activity.

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Examples

  • “We will spare no effort to bring to justice all those who committed lawless and violent acts of any kind, including against members of the media,” Sherwin said.

  • In his First Amendment class, the younger Raskin was studying the “incitement to imminent lawless action,” which Raskin described as “the line where speech ends and conduct begins.”

  • He was depicting the border region and Mexico as lawless, a threat, danger.

  • I sincerely thank them for their service and condemn all lawless activity.

  • People who talk of law and order excuse a lawless attack on the constitutional order.

  • And this is the prevailing attitude that white St. Louis fears the most: an all out riot, anarchy, lawlessness, disorder.

  • His slaying sums up the lawlessness now gripping the region and the impunity with which separatists can act.

  • Hundreds of police officers have been deployed to Tacloban to “curb lawlessness”, according to local news.

  • MK Cohen: the Minister of Defense is responsible for putting a stop to lawlessness.

  • The kidnapping was a disturbing sign of the lawlessness in Libya that Zidan and his government have been unable to curb.

  • Lawlessness is b'ilin' around inside o' me, an' I'm goin' to git right out!

  • It was this spirit of lawlessness which gave rise to the Irish tithe-bill of this session.

  • The different counties, in fact, from the agitation of the demagogues, presented one scene of growing lawlessness and crime.

  • From the preamble we can form a good idea of the lawlessness and confusion which prevailed on the borders of Wales at that period.

  • Well, the papers got out an extra edition with scare-heads about "Outrages" and "High-handed Lawlessness!"