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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

2. The President:

   We have peaceful protesters, and support the rights for peaceful protesters. We can't allow a situation like( what happened) in Minneapolis to descend further into lawless anarchy and chaos.

3. Pete Sessions:

   I hope we, as a nation, aim to respect the rule of law and feel blessed to have men and women in blue that put their lives on the line each day. We cannot and must not live in a lawless society, we must empower our local and state law enforcement to take the necessary actions for the safety of others. As a member of the House Oversight Committee, I would like to ask the Department of Justice why they feel it necessary to become involved?

4. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   By filing these resolutions of inquiry, Republicans are setting our sights on critical issues we will investigate, including the Biden-inflicted border crisis, the devastating toll of the Biden administration’s collusion with teachers’ unions to keep children masked and schools closed, the collusion between the Biden administration and big tech, the weaponization of the Justice Department, and more, for the past two years in Washington, the Biden administration’s reckless spending, support for lawless open borders, and attacks against their political opponents have all gone unchecked by Democrats in Congress — and voting against these requests prove Democrats are running cover for the corrupt Biden administration — but Republicans are committed to accountability for the American people.

5. Jamie Raskin:

   We're in the middle of looking at a whole set of unprecedented lawless activities by the White House. And it's not that this is disconnected from it, it's relevant to it. I mean, judicial corruption contaminates everything. So this is relevant and we should get the information that we can, but we also have limited resources.