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Another word for lawless

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lawless

modif.

Without law
wild, untamed, uncivilized, savage, native, uncultivated, barbarous, fierce, violent, turbulent, unpeaceful, tempestuous, disordered, agitated, disturbed, warlike; see also uncontrolled.
Antonyms cultured*, cultivated, controlled.
Not restrained by law
insurgent, mutinous, riotous, ungovernable, nihilistic, nonconformist, unorthodox, seditious, in defiance of the law, traitorous, recusant, contumacious, seditious, revolutionary, insubordinate, disobedient, piratical, terrorizing, tyrannous, anarchic, anarchistic, anarchical, heterodox, despotic, bad, criminal, evil, infringing, noncompliant, defiant, rude, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressive; see also mobbish, rebellious 2, unruly.

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Another word for lawless

adjective

Prohibited by law:
illegal, illegitimate, illicit, outlawed, unlawful, wrongful. See crimes, law
Of, involving, or being a crime:
criminal, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful, wrongful. See crimes
Not submitting to discipline or control:
disorderly, fractious, indocile, intractable, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wild. Idiom: out of line. See control, order, peace, resist

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Christianity is not a lawless but an excellent law-abiding faith.
It had been lawless and rebellious.
The bishop's career and on the lawless condition of the Welsh marches Lee tremendous struggle of 1864 between Lee and Grant included in his time.
What was wanting was not vitality and licence, not audacity of speculation, not lawless instinct or rebellious impulse.
And this is fulfilled when he obeys the commands of law and the true order; when he tends his cattle and fields, in contrast with the lawless and predatory nomad (Dahae); when he wars on all harmful and evil creatures, and on the devilworshippers; when he keeps free from pollution the pure creations of Ahuramazdauire foremost, but also earth and water; and, above all, when he practises the Good and True in thought, word and work.

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