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# lawless

«lawless» in Mova's school dictionary: **not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more lawless, most lawless)

### meaning for a pupil

Lawless means not obeying the law; wild and out of control: a lawless gang of robbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a lawless person is rough and rude and does not follow the rules of right and wrong; a lawless monster ignores the gods

### examples

- The lawless robbers ran wild in the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawless/#x1)
- In the old days the land was lawless and dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawless/#x2)
- The lawless giant laughed at the rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawless/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lawless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.