4. plenty, plenitude, abundance, amplitude, sumptuousness, luxury, opulence, richness.
law, n. 1. principle, regulation, rule, ordinance, bylaw, statute; enactment, act, measure, bill; control, restriction, ban, embargo, prohibition.
2. command, mandate, commandment, directive, order, court order, injunction, decree, edict, dictate, dictum; canon, Both Rom. Cath. Ch. bull, encyclical; pronouncement, pronunciamento, proclamation, declaration, statement, manifesto.
3. constitution, body of laws, set of principles, rules and regulations, bylaws, code, charter.
4. system of law, legal code, corpus juris, Law. digest, Law. equity; common law, statute law, international law, criminal law, Brit, crown law; canon law, Corpus Juris Canonici, Codex Juris Canonici.
5. jurisprudence, science of law, Law. jus, legal philosophy; law-writing, nomology, nomography; Civil Law. court decisions.
6. bar, legal profession.
7. litigation, legal action, Law. action, proceeding or legal proceeding; Law. prosecution, action or suit at law, lawsuit, Law. cause, Law. case.
8. lawmen, officers or agents of the law, police, Inf. cops, SI. bulls, SI. pigs, SI. the man.
9. moral law, golden rule, rule of conduct, rubric, precept; directive, direction, instruction, guideline, rule of thumb, basic rule; formula, formulary, recipe, method, way; model, canon, standard, criterion, convention, custom, practice; natural law, general truth, universal truth, maxim, axiom, truism, truth or self-evident truth; principle, tenet, doctrine, dogma, belief, opinion, theory; mathematical rule, Math, proposition, Math, corollary.
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the law Law of Moses, Ten Commandments, Decalogue.
law-abiding, adj. lawful, obedient, obeying, compliant, complying, dutiful, duteous; good, principled, upright, honorable, upstanding,
lawbreaker, n. 1. criminal, felon, misdemeanant; convict, SI. jailbird, parolee, ex-convict, Inf. ex-con, recidivist, repeat offender, Inf. chronic crook; transgressor, trespasser, offender, culprit, miscreant; malefactor, evildoer, wrongdoer, sinner; malfeasant, misfeasor; perjurer; Inf. scofflaw.
2. gangster, mobster, racketeer, mafioso, desperado, terrorist; thug, tough, Inf. toughie, mugger, ruffian, Inf. plugugly, rowdy, hoodlum, SI. hood, Inf goon, hooligan, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, SI. bad actor, SI. gunsel, SI. mug, Australian SI. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock, (in Paris) apache.
3. assassin, murderer, killer, slayer, sniper; strangler, cutthroat, garroter; liquidator, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; gunman, All U.S. SI. gun, hired gun, hit man, trigger-man, hatchet man, torpedo.
4. bandit, hold-up man, SI. stick-up man, armed robber; robber, burglar, thief, stealer, Inf. crook, Law. larcener or larcenist; shoplifter, pickpocket, purse-snatcher, cutpurse; embezzler, peculator, Law. defalcator.
5. extortionist, blackmailer; smuggler, runner; forger, counterfeiter; kidnapper, abductor; arsonist, incendiary; rioter, bomb-planter.