- 1(of a country or an area) where laws do not exist or are not obeyed lawless streets the lawless days of the Wild West
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- 2(of people or their actions) without respect for the law synonym wild lawless gangs
noun [uncountable] The climate here is one of violence and lawlessness.See lawless in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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