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单词 lawlessness
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lawlessness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɔː.ləs.nəs/us
/ˈlɑː.ləs.nəs/
behaviourthat isillegalor notcontrolledbylaws:
违法行为；无法无天
Thecountryhasdescendedinto lawlessness.这个国家已经完全陷入无法无天的状态。
There is agrowingsenseof lawlessness inborderregions.边境地区的违法行为日益增加。
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  • Citizens areterrorizedbymurder,theft,assaultsandgenerallawlessness.
  • Thepowervacuumopenedthe way for lawlessness.
  • He said thatamnestywouldrewardlawlessness andencouragefurtherillegalimmigration.
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(Definition oflawlessnessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflawlessness

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First, conservatives attached civil rights tolawlessnessby arguing that civil disobedience flouted laws and would inevitably lead to more lawless behavior.
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Decline in violence is not the same as absence of arbitrariness and occasionallawlessness.
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Business feeling was running high regarding the 'state oflawlessness'.
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Such a people consequently lack a sense of direction and focus, often becoming victims of crime, poverty, chaos,lawlessness, and underdevelopment.
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For example, by deploying women to destroy fences and hedges given the presumption of their innatelawlessness.
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The rural population was already living in a society where administrative chaos was a minor inconvenience compared to robbery and generallawlessness.
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Such a people seem to lack direction and focus, often becoming victims of crime, poverty, chaos,lawlessness, and consequently unwarranted underdevelopment.
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Revelling in its generallawlessness, it is a space of chaos and excess where the "natural" social order is reversed and distinctions are blurred.
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The conservatives had offered an uncompromising position on crime andlawlessness.
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The conventional nature of property relations, and the thought that we cannot permitlawlessness, seem dominant in this case.
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As a result, the extent and depth oflawlessnesswhich surrounded the lives and governance of the poor has steadily increased.
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Why do we insist onlawlessnesswhen we cannot speak, write, or read our own languages well, if at all?
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When men will seek political advantage by turning their eyes away from riots and violence, we can well understand whylawlessnessgrows even while we pass more laws.
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Looting andlawlessnessappear to be declining in most areas.
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Government policy has caused the increase inlawlessness.
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