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lawlessly

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law·less  (lôls)
adj.
1. Unrestrained by law; unruly: a lawless mob.
2. Contrary to the law; unlawful: the lawless slaughter of protected species.
3. Not governed by law: the lawless frontier.
lawless·ly adv.
lawless·ness n.
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Adv.1.lawlessly - in an illegal manner; "they dumped the waste illegally"
illegally, illicitly
lawfully, legitimately, licitly - in a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!"


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Pipt lawlessly made," continued the Wizard, "is a pretty cat, but its pink brains made it so conceited that it was a disagreeable companion to everyone.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
The moment was at the close of a summer's day just before supper, which, in our house, we had lawlessly late, and the place was the kitchen where my mother was going about her work, and listening as she could to what my father was telling my brother and me and an apprentice of ours, who was like a brother to us both, of a book that he had once read.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance of any reckless deed by which he can maintain himself and the rabble of his associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought in from without, or those whom he himself has allowed to break loose within him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself.
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