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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict, contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord, disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance, presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw, transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulness
Dictionary Results for lawlessness:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lawlessness
    n 1: a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
         a failure of government) [syn: anarchy, lawlessness]
    2: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the
       law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lawless \Law"less\, a.
   1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a
      lawless claim.
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            He needs no indirect nor lawless course. --Shak.
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   2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or
      of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
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   3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
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            Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void.
                                                  --Pope.
      -- Law"less*ly, adv. -- Law"less*ness, n.
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