Crossword clues for lawless
lawless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lawless \Law"less\, a.
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Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.
He needs no indirect nor lawless course.
--Shak. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
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Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void.
--Pope. -- Law"less*ly, adv. -- Law"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, lawelese (see law + -less) Related: Lawlessly; lawlessness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not governed by any law. 2 prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal. 3 Not restrained by the law or by discipline; unruly, disorderly.
WordNet
adj. without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchic, anarchical]
lax in enforcing laws; "an open town" [syn: open, wide-open]
disobedient to or defiant of law; "lawless bands roaming the plains" [syn: outlaw(a)]
Wikipedia
Lawless may refer to:
Lawless is an American detective television series starring former NFL player Brian Bosworth on the Fox Broadcasting Company that performed so poorly on television it was canceled after one episode.
Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave is based on Matt Bondurant's historical novel The Wettest County in the World (2008). The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy Pearce.
The film is about the violent conflict between three bootlegging brothers–Forrest (Hardy), Howard (Clarke), and Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf)–and the ruthless Deputy Charley Rakes (Pearce) and his men, who try to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine business after Forrest refuses to pay the cops off. The film was in development for about three years before being produced. It screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released on August 29, 2012.
Lawless is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Lawless (born 1983), Welsh footballer
- Blackie Lawless, stage name of Stephen Duran (born 1954), American singer, songwriter and musician
- Burton Lawless (born 1953), National Football League offensive lineman
- Cecil Lawless (1821–1853), Irish politician
- Emily Lawless (1845–1913), Irish novelist and poet
- Frank Lawless (1870–1922), Irish politician and participant in the 1916 Easter Rising
- Jack Lawless (born 1987), American musician
- Jean C. Lawless (born ca. 1930), married Jean Sharkey, Irish badminton player winning in the 1950s the Irish Championships and Open
- John Lawless (disambiguation), various people
- Lucy Lawless (born 1968), New Zealand actress best known for starring in the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Louie Lawless, Canadian actor
- Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry (1735–1799), Irish wool merchant, banker and politician
- Paul Lawless (born 1964), Canadian retired National Hockey League left winger
- Steven Lawless (born 1991), Scottish footballer
- Terry Lawless (1933–2009), English boxing manager and trainer
- Tom Lawless (born 1956), American Major League Baseball player
- Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry (1773–1853), Irish politician and landowner; son of Nicholas Lawless
Usage examples of "lawless".
In the two chapters immediately following, VIII and IX, the reader will learn something of the loss of all moral standards and the cruel, lawless violence to which the atheistic, anarchistic materialism of I.
With his gems,, they had bought the powerful carack and were now come into port to enlist a crew of lawless rogues from among the Barachan pirates.
Obviously, though, some persons who should have been here, were not, for when Fleech paused at unanswered names, Judge Lawless threw vicious glares about the place.
Now in the grasp of the men he had mistaken for police, Fleech was listening while Lawless called the roll himself.
Which was why Dave so suddenly sided against Fleech for trying to trick Judge Lawless.
But Fleech was addressing Judge Lawless in person, and the pitiful tones made sense.
One hand raised, Judge Lawless was about to fling it sideward as a signal for the firing squad to blast Fleech into oblivion.
Swung about by Dave, Fleech turned his gun in a new direction - toward Judge Lawless.
Seeing that the strugglers would serve him as shields, Lawless hurled himself upon them, and in the melee, Fleech broke loose.
The short shrift that Lawless had given Fleech was a most discouraging precedent for Dave to consider.
I am opposed to encouraging that lawless and mobocratic spirit, whether in relation to the Bank or anything else, which is already abroad in the land and is spreading with rapid and fearful impetuosity, to the ultimate overthrow of every institution, of every moral principle, in which persons and property have hitherto found security.
Instead, the Ruwendian kings complaisantly allowed lawless enclaves of these so-called Oddlings to persist, offtimes to the detriment of their legitimate subjects and the general peace and good order of the realm.
Yonder taks a long bend to the south afore it wins to the sea, and besides, Yondermouth is a well-kenned fisher toun where lawless doings wad be bridled--a toun like our ain Leven or Anster.
But, seeing that the thin veneer of modesty with which every woman of the world is furnished goes but a very little way below the surface, they began rather to enjoy this unedifying episode, and at bottom were hugely delighted-- feeling themselves in their element, furthering the schemes of lawless love with the gusto of a gourmand cook who prepares supper for another.
Nevertheless, all these irregular and apparently lawless catastrophes would be the result of an absolutely uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum.