(n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
(n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
(2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(3) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(4) In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination.
(5) It's telling, I think, because she's seen as a conservative, but there's a huge streak of anarchy that runs right through her."
(6) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
(7) Photograph: Mark Townsend Moussa lives in the Camp Fleur district of Kaga-Bandoro, a town deep in the jungle of the CAR, which was tipped into anarchy when the Seleka rebels overthrew the government and seized power four months ago.
(8) ''Anarchy is the final consequence of overpopulation.''
(9) It’s that Britain has prime responsibility for the cause of the crisis, the anarchy in Iraq.
(10) It proceeded to sow anarchy across Afghanistan and Iraq and then attempted, after 2012, to destabilise President Assad in Syria.
(11) The Indian position has been that any attempt to reconcile with militants is doomed to failure and risks plunging Afghanistan into anarchy and fanaticism from which Pakistan stands to benefit.
(12) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
(13) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
(14) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
(15) Then I got two handkerchiefs with the Anarchy cover printed on them, but I gave one to Sid Vicious because he said, "Those bastards won't give me one!"
(16) The behaviour of these protesters is illegal, extremely unreasonable and inhumane, and is even worse than that of radical social activists and almost complete anarchy,” the statement said.
(17) We watched as a million-and-a-half people staggered around having been released from a totalitarian nightmare into a world of complete anarchy.
(18) Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham, who wants Labour to develop its own vision of a "big society" based on strong local institutions, said: "This reveals that the Tory approach to the big society is literally a recipe for chaos, bordering on anarchy."
(19) The anarchy and opportunism thus either became, on the political right, the final evidence of liberal "entitlement culture" gone wrong, or on the left a demonstration of how market economics and materialism had betrayed us.
(20) Back in London, McLaren was determined to start his own band and by 1976 was managing the Sex Pistols, the punk entity that revolutionised popular culture and introduced anarchy to the masses.
Miscreant
Definition:
(n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
(n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
(a.) Holding a false religious faith.
(a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
(2) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
(3) The theory was that cracking down on petty crimes would discourage miscreants from committing bigger ones.
(4) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
(5) Corcoran grinned and cycled off, resuming the hunt for miscreants.
(6) "It seems that innocent civilians are once again are at the mercy of miscreants."
(7) Take the "human flesh search engines" – internet users who band together to track down and expose miscreants, such as abusive officials.
(8) It could simply withhold government work from any miscreant banks (or other businesses).
(9) "The technical trail is indelible – it has the fingerprints of the miscreant all over it.
(10) Miscreants stopped the bus, broke the windows and … then hurled petrol bombs,” said Karmokar, 22, who was being treated for burns to his face and hands at Dhaka medical hospital.
(11) Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant."
(12) The move provoked a cacophony of calls for honours to be stripped from other miscreant bankers, politicians and regulators.
(13) Official rhetoric is sectarian and blames foreign and Islamist armed miscreants for the violence.
(14) They would entail inspection rights, demands for firmer data on rate-setting practices, rather than the widespread use of estimates, and powers to fine miscreants.
(15) The US actor is also expected to reprise her role as musician Dana Barrett in a forthcoming third Ghostbusters movie in which her on-screen son will battle the series' trademark spooky miscreants.
(16) In "Left Foot Forward", his "political blog for progressives", Master Straw boldly misrepresents one of the miscreant's pieces, in order to attract new signatories to the "stop Liddle" campaign and thus protect our wives and servants.
(17) He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called “parallel state” supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud .
(18) Particularly as the parade of miscreants through US courts, and new revelations, continue.
(19) The local press blamed the fires on “miscreants” from nearby communities.
(20) While these two miscreants obviously are guilty of losing control – banged to rights on video – one or two of those who live alongside them and make a good living with them might like to ask themselves when they forgot their manners, when they strayed into the Land Of No Consequences.