(Criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.
1I suggest that we are very selective in our attitudes to law-breaking.
2Many persons contend that certain kinds of criminals inherit their law-breaking propensities.
3Will ye trust yourselves into hands stained with law-breaking of our blood?
4Might I remind the public that we do not condone law-breaking or vandalism.
5Think of it as EV version of Rendezvous, but without the flagrant law-breaking.
6Mr. Monroe has phonia against law-breaking, and imagines they are already prosecuting them.
7And why does he come here anyway, flaunting his law-breaking in our faces?
8They said the students were expelled for violence and law-breaking.
9However, my appetite for law-breaking cops who think they know better than the system?
10Civil disobedience was not to be understood merely as law-breaking.
11The law-breaking of my companion seemed not only seriously excusable, but even comically excusable.
12First we will take the case of a man committed to prison for law-breaking.
13In the harsher world outside it meant exile, slavery or, in the last resort, law-breaking.
14Cards, law-breaking-theseare what I have done; but these are not what I have preached.
15Every apostle is directed by the law-breaking church monarch.
16Impromptu mass meetings are common, and law-breaking schemes find their cradle beneath its glittering lights.
Translations for law-breaking