Modifies a noun

• deed: They usually cite Hebrews 10:17: Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more ( cf.

• region: The alternative is a country which begins to look more like Afghanistan than Vietnam, with increasingly lawless regions.

• man: And they stationed there a sinful people, lawless men.

• state: We [ Serbia ] are a lawless state that adores legal formalities.

• society: There can be no harmony in a lawless society.

• land: Armed forces roam the lawless land where dark columns of smoke rise up from the surrounding farms and houses.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I had a really good time, Peru didn't yet have guerrillas but it was nevertheless a very lawless place.

• utterly: In the rest of the park, which is utterly lawless, we can only conclude there has been an uncontrolled massacre.

• fairly: The last part, Eastern Turkey, was fairly lawless - camp in villages, not in the wild.

• often: Journalists in Pakistan also faced difficulties, mainly reporting from the often lawless and extremely dangerous tribal regions that border Afghanistan.

Used with adjective complement

• become: One ' but ' is that the state itself can become lawless.