0 in a way that is illegal or not controlled by laws:
He claims the government has acted lawlessly.
The courts should not allow any one class of individuals to live lawlessly.
When a legislature does not allow the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly.
The crowd might have been left in complete command of what they had lawlessly possessed themselves of.
I say "statutory"rather than"compulsory" because there are senses in which a voluntary policy can be just as compulsory, though lawlessly and wantonly compulsory, as a statutory policy.
