Lawless and Rough

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Lawless adjective - Not restrained by or under the control of legal authority.

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Rough and lawless are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rough" instead an adjective "Lawless".

Nearby Words: law, lawful, lawlessly

Rough adjective - Covered with or as if with hair.

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Lawless and rough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lawless" instead an adjective "Rough".

However, the times being rough and the seas being a lawless place, the distinction between trade and piracy was fluid and sometimes a matter of situational choice.

Source: Literature / The Icelandic Sagas
It also helps that in Japanese (乱暴, rambou) it means violent, rough, lawless.. The character was named after a breed of apple which was, in turn, named after a Swedish-American immigrant.

Source: Awesome Mc Coolname / Film

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