lawlessness

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Noun
  • As this theory went, an unbalanced government would descend into tyranny with a too-powerful monarch; oligarchy under a dominant aristocratic class; or anarchy with the people out of control.
    Carla Gardina Pestana, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
  • But his comix are best understood as a bottom-up effort to return a neutered art form—one that afforded him untrammeled fantasy as a kid—to a place of illegitimacy and anarchy, shame and desire, surplus and oblivion.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station watch commander informed the Times no crime had taken place at the residence.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Medina and Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said nearly every category of crime has come down since the beginning of the year because of the work already being done by the police force.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Part of the problem is that, in the Brazilian legislature, corruption and criminality are so endemic as to be inextricable from the job of governance.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Since 2014, Ukraine has been subjected to a level of violence and criminality that reflects Russia’s utter contempt for the laws of armed conflict.
    The Editors, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Lawlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawlessness. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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