Synonyms for lawless
ˈlɔ lɪslaw·less

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1. lawless

   Synonyms:
   wild, rebellious, disorderly, savage, marauding, violent

   Antonyms:
   peaceful, loyal, orderly, civilized, honest, tractable, well-disposed

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1. anarchic, anarchical, lawlessadjective

   without law or control

   "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"

   Synonyms:
   outlaw(a), anarchical, wide-open, anarchic

   Antonyms:
   controlled, lawful

2. wide-open, lawlessadjective

   lax in enforcing laws

   "a wide-open town"

   Synonyms:
   outlaw(a), anarchical, wide-open, anarchic

   Antonyms:
   controlled, lawful

3. lawless, outlaw(a)adjective

   disobedient to or defiant of law

   "lawless bands roaming the plains"

   Antonyms:
   controlled, lawful

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1. lawlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   anarchical, riotous, mobocratic, licentious

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1. List of paraphrases for "lawless":

   anarchic, wrongful, outlaw

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1. Michael Diamondstein:

   Today is a tremendous day. We’re all very thankful, however, it’s also a sad day, because it reminds us of how lawless, unfair and unjust Philadelphia law enforcement was for so long.

2. Esha Bhandari:

   By putting an end to the governments ability to conduct suspicionless fishing expeditions, the court reaffirms that the border is not a lawless place and that we dont lose our privacy rights when we travel.

3. Don Samuels:

   When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.

4. Timothy Zahn:

   The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.

5. Phil Trieb:

   [I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.