(a.) Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.
(a.) Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
(a.) Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two other men were shot dead over the weekend, prompting the governing African National Congress (ANC) to warn that Marikana "cannot be allowed to deteriorate into a bastion of lawlessness".
(2) The work closely follows the theory developed by Lawless (1987).
(3) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(4) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(5) They are fleeing, perforce, the most awful conditions imaginable: a vicious, endless civil war that sees schools targeted with barrel bombs, communities assaulted with chemical weapons, and whole cities destroyed in a conflict between lawless jihadi fanatics and regime forces fighting for survival.
(6) For a sense of the scale of the problem, consider the amount of relief money the UN has called for to aid the increasingly lawless region: $1bn (£630m).
(7) Two senior members of a feared Afghan insurgent group were killed early on Thursday in the first strike by a US drone outside Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.
(8) Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
(9) Mexican security forces have faced accusations of committing abuses amid the lawlessness of the country’s drug wars.
(10) Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, which suffered the raid off the coast of lawless Somalia in April 2009, told the New York Post the titular hero played by Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass's critically acclaimed film was far from heroic.
(11) The murky nature of the seizures – seemingly both methodical and lawless – was amplified when the Russian Night Wolves biker gang, which has close ties to the Kremlin, arrived to guard the latter.
(12) These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday .
(13) His defiant reappearance underscores the difficulty of targeting leaders of militant groups in the lawless tribal belt of Pakistan .
(14) On 25 November, a protest in Makhachkala of up to 3,000 people called for an end to lawlessness among the security services.
(15) Mr Morgan said the PCC had made a vast improvement to standards of journalism from the "pretty lawless" state that had existed before.
(16) Addressing the overall context of the riots and the "abuse of modern technology", the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, said: "The level of lawlessness was shocking and wholly inexcusable.
(17) presidential spokesman for foreign affairs Teuku Faizasyah is quoted as saying: "[Indonesia] is portrayed as a cruel and lawless nation ...
(18) On Monday the Russian foreign ministry denounced the lawlessness it said “now rules in eastern regions of Ukraine as a result of the actions of fighters of the so-called Right Sector, with the full connivance” of Ukraine’s new authorities.
(19) Vandals have left none of the mall’s glass storefronts in tact – “kids coming in and breaking shit,” Lawless explains.
(20) The Front National has slammed Fillon as a symbol of lawless, ultra-free market, globalised capitalism.
Pandemonium
Definition:
(n.) The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
(n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember him sinking to his knees in tears and the chicken run where I was watching erupted into pandemonium along with everyone else.
(2) Korine gifted Alien to James Franco , who immediately agreed to do it, and the director drove to Panama City to write a draft in the midst of authentic spring-break pandemonium.
(3) Dealing in the shares began on 3 December amid what was described as "pandemonium" on the London Stock Exchange, as share dealers wearing BT hardhats swarmed the floor looking to buy up the stock.
(4) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
(5) The decision sparked pandemonium in the court, as lawyers and relatives of people killed during the 2011 uprising began shouting.
(6) She “ revealed the indignities and suffering inflicted on farm animals by industrialised agriculture ”, by apparently just asking to be shown: The farmer switched on the light and there was instant pandemonium within a row of narrow, enclosed crates at one end of the shed.
(7) Apparently when they scored a last-minute equaliser against Chile, it caused such pandemonium at Ayresome Park, the strip lighting in the press box came down."
(8) "There was understandable pandemonium in the morning.
(9) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
(10) 29 min: Play switches to the other end of the field, where a free-kick swung into the Manchester City penalty area by Marco Reus briefly causes pandemonium.
(11) Its reporter said there was “slight pandemonium” and that one person was killed in the rush to get out.
(12) The combination of shrinking habitat and increasing human pandemonium have produced conditions under which the channels … necessary for creature survival are being completely overloaded.
(13) As the pandemonium died down, it became clear that the strangers in black were a Swat team of police officers from the local Habersham County force – they had raided the house on the incorrect assumption that occupants were involved in drugs.
(14) Pandemonium erupted when the not guilty verdict was announced.
(15) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(16) With pandemonium unfolding all around them, the faces of Tawfiq, Sultan and Sa'dun were lost and forgotten in the crush.
(17) It's a small sample of the estimated 45,000 deployments that occur in the US each year (up from 1,400% from the '80s), but the report reveals a picture of law enforcement as flash-bang assault unit , with hardly an actual suspect in harm's way: pandemonium in a baby's crib; a grandfather of 12 killed by a discharged gun; Swat officers gunning down a mother as she died, child in her arms.
(18) The helicopter triggers pandemonium on the newly formed island village, a cluster of mud houses poking over the surface of the sprawling inland sea in southern Pakistan .
(19) Four Afghan brothers who said they had worked as translators for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) but had been forced to flee from the Taliban; a nine-year-old Syrian girl called Hadig, her arm decked in loom bands, and 55-year-old Shah Mohamad Tagi, whose face had been badly burnt in a bomb attack on his native home town of Herat, Afghanistan, all told similar stories that underlined the sense of pandemonium.
(20) Key changes made to the executive order mean that similar scenes of pandemonium are much less likely to be witnessed at midnight Thursday.