lawlessness

lawlessness
n
1. anarchy, anarchism, chaos; terrorism, nihilism, violence, destructiveness; reign of terror, ochlocracy, mobocracy, mob rule; rebellion, mutiny, insurrection, sedition, insurgency, revolt, uprising, revolution, riot.
2. crime, criminality, felonious or larcenous conduct, malfeasance, misfeasance, racketeering, piracy; dishonesty, unscrupulousness, unscrupulosity, unprin-cipledness, Inf. crookedness; illegality, unlawfulness, illicitness.
3. unrestraint, abandon, license, unruliness, laxity, looseness; disorder, confusion, disarray, disorganization.
4. licentiousness, wantonness, dissipation, profligacy; self-indulgence, intemperance, immoderation, incontinence.
5. disobedience, insubordination, waywardness, in tractability, uncontrollability; noncompliance, nonconformity, recalcitrance, contumaciousness.
6. wickedness, iniquity, corruption, venality, bribery; depravity, degeneracy, dissoluteness; roguery, knavery, rascality.

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