lawless

Speech parts

1. lawless - Adjective

2. lawless - Adjective Satellite

3. Lawless - Proper noun

Meaning

Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.

Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.

Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.

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Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. John Muir

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. Aeschines

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. Agnes Repplier

Love is lawless. Turkish Proverb

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