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