law-abiding

Modifies a noun

• citizen: He is a law-abiding citizen who has never been in trouble with the police.
• motorist: These people are a scourge for law-abiding motorists who fork out hundreds of pounds each year for cover.
• majority: The time has come to remember the rights of the law-abiding majority.
• cyclist: Motorists, too, should support law-abiding cyclists: every cyclist is potentially one less car in a traffic jam.
• folk: In contrast, tutors at adult education classes have learned not to expect masterpieces from law-abiding folk retired on comfortable pensions.
• driver: What they fail to understand is that law-abiding drivers no longer trust the police.

Modifying Another Word

• otherwise: Meanwhile, magistrates are locking up otherwise law-abiding sellers of cannabis for seven years.
• perfectly: Some very worrying conflicts could arise for perfectly law-abiding, fair-minded employers.
• normally: The added cruelty of the law is just another jab in the already bleeding side of normally law-abiding people.
• generally: The generally law-abiding motorist feels like a hunted animal.
• so: Clive didn't bank on Des being so law-abiding.
• relatively: As a result, many New York neighborhoods went from relatively law-abiding to pretty lawless in a decade.