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law-abiding
[ law-uh-bahy-ding ]
adjective
- obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law:
law-abiding citizens.
law-abiding
adjective
- adhering more or less strictly to the laws
a law-abiding citizen
Derived Forms
- ˈlaw-aˌbidingness, noun
Other Words From
- law-a·biding·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of law-abiding1
Example Sentences
The cops had come up short, unable to find the two men in a sea of several hundred thousand law-abiding people.
Most Muslims, like most people everywhere, are peaceable and law-abiding.
The majority of these people are hardworking, law-abiding citizens who believe in strong family values.
She makes bold statements that IQ, law-abiding or -breaking tendencies and political alignment are all genetically determined.
I completely support the right of law-abiding citizens to own and use guns for sport and self-protection.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
To be law-abiding means to acquiesce, if not directly participate, in that conspiracy.
They're bipeds—lizardoid rather than humanoid—and are a fairly intelligent and law-abiding lot.
They seemed to him, both for their possessions and their law-abiding disposition, to be worthy of baronies at least.
If the 'big ones' were as law-abiding as the 'little ones' there would be little need for criminal courts and jails.
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