How to Use scofflaw in a Sentence

scofflaw

noun

• This seizure marks the end of the road for these scofflaw ice cream vendors.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 6 June 2019
• The scofflaws were men and women, young and old, wild hair and no hair.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 2024
• The scofflaw in the next seat has always presented a quandary.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• And watch out for scofflaws who speed, run red lights or tailgate.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Aug. 2023
• Nor is there tax money in the five working vaults or scofflaws in the basement jail cell.
  — Cathy Ching, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• While there are scofflaw dealers who sometimes make under-the-counter deals, that is by no means the norm.
  — Philip Cook, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2017
• The bill also does not say anything about a scofflaw’s mental state.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• Hess said the most concerning part of the current program is the impact to people not on the scofflaw list.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
• The scofflaws in the southern Florida city are hardly alone.
  — Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020
• In its current version, the bill still creates a host of new crimes and threatens scofflaws with jail time and fines.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• But critics contend that not everyone who fails to pay a toll is a scofflaw.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• Never found out if this scofflaw ever got caught or a haircut.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
• The owners of the restaurant begged police not to shoot at any future scofflaws who might break into their kitchen.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 10 Oct. 2017
• The fines for many infractions have also increased since the scofflaw was put into place in 2007.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
• These two elements, alone, show that Thompson is a scofflaw.
  — Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• The agency began cracking down on scofflaws in 2017, following years of abuse of the blue placards.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 6 July 2018
• Some of us scofflaws ignore the legality and blow the light after coming to a complete stop, of course.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• These aren’t people who are trying to shirk their obligations; these aren’t scofflaws.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
• Edward Klein ruled on smugglers, playmates and scofflaws.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 16 June 2017
• And the city might get tougher with private citizens who are snow shoveling scofflaws, too.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2018
• Police claim that scofflaws are terrorizing people in and out of camps.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2020
• People told Byrd, a Weekly Standard reporter, to dump this scofflaw for his crimes against candy.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 10 July 2018
• That the Marin Headlands exists as open space in which a scofflaw mother could let loose two 10-year-old city boys is something of a miracle.
  — Allison Stockman, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
• Records show one of those contracts was extended before the scofflaw list of owners was published.
  — Cecilia Reyes, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Other states and cities have tried to take action to reduce the number of registration scofflaws.
  — Michelle Baruchman, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
• One such scofflaw that gets top billing in Hiltzik’s column is Home Depot, which in June settled a class-action lawsuit over wage theft to the tune of $72.5 million.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Yet, its leaders decided years ago not to issue warnings to snow scofflaws.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The Treasurer’s effort to track down short-term rental scofflaws comes as the city continues to wrestle with how to regulate such rentals.
  — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• In too many instances, our treasured places are being overrun by scofflaws who don’t believe in the rules intended to keep them nice.
  — Steve Lipsher, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
• The new impound rules are modeled after a similar crackdown in Orange, a city near Anaheim that had been dealing with the same kinds of scofflaw vendors for years.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024