break the law

noun

Roget 964: lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience etc. 742; unconformity etc. 83.    arbitrariness etc. adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.    mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat [Fr.]; le droit du plus fort [Fr.]; argumentum baculinum [Lat.].    illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.    trover and conversion [Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.    [person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man etc. 949.    v.. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.    smuggle, run, poach.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: breach the law, care naught for, circumvent the law, commit a crime, contravene, defy, disobey, disobey the law, disregard, disregard the law, flout, go counter to, ignore, infract, infringe, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, refuse to cooperate, scoff at, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, transgress, trespass, violate, violate the law ... show more.

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