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law-abiding

adj

Definitions

  1. Obeying the laws of society

    Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.

    • The law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government surveillance... unless the government begins to break the law.
    • Most people take the imprint "Not Transferable" for granted when buying railway tickets, and are sufficiently law-abiding not to think of transferring a return half to a relation or friend.
    • In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for law-abiding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA