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Example sentences for: lawless
How can you use “lawless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
J. Edgar Hoover despised King, whom he genuinely believed to be a Communist and further resented for assailing the bureau's sometimes laggard enforcement of justice in the lawless South.
USAT points out that this definition departs from the standard laid down by the Supreme Court in 1969, which limited "threat" to those words that produce or are likely to produce "imminent" lawless action.
Also in Newsweek , a package of articles cheers the capture of Pol Pot--"the last monster of the 20 th century"--but notes that Cambodia is still corrupt, lawless, and scarred by Pol Pot's genocide.
The worry: Hong Kong could become like its Chinese sister city Shenzhen, which is capitalist but wild, lawless, and cruel to workers.
The pirates raided anything on the sea, living totally lawless — and often not very lengthy — lives.