Definition of Lawless

Lawless

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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Lawless Quotations

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Ida B. Wells

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

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Lawless Translations

lawless in German is gesetzlos
lawless in Spanish is sin ley

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