Sentence examples similar to lawless persons from inspiring English sources
(A side note to readers: Dictionary.com defines the word "ruffian" as "a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully").
"The charge has been made that the Klan takes the law into its own hands; that it terrorizes private citizens in many communities by lawless acts against person and property," Simmons told the House committee.
The scary lawless borders of one person's cosy region might be smack bang in the middle of someone else's sector of ease.
I knew then in every pore of my being how it felt to be a poor, helpless, isolated, terrified black person in that lawless state.
Socrates and Glaucon characterize the person ruled by his lawless attitudes as enslaved, as least able to do what it wants, as full of disorder and regret, as poor and unsatisfiable, and as fearful (577c-578a).
The movie's West was a wild, lawless place, requiring a certain sort of person to tame it.
Grant, upset over the Ellenton and Cainhoy riots, finally declared a Presidential Proclamation on October 17, 1876 and ordered all persons, within 3 days, to cease their lawless activities and disperse to their homes.
Lawless, Paul; Ramsden, Peter.
"Violent, savage, lawless?
