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UK
/ænˈɑːkɪkəl/
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[ US /æˈnɑɹkɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /æˈnɑɹkɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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without law or control
the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic
How To Use anarchical In A Sentence
- Sociologist Paulus Wirutomo said nowadays people had lost suitable models to demonstrate their disagreement and simply resorted to anarchical actions to attract public attention.
- It would shift us away from the UN system and towards an anarchical world dominated by raw power, shifting alliances, and desperate attempts by vulnerable states to acquire the capacity to deter.
- The courts have fined them, given them a tongue-lashing in the hope that they will grow up, learn from their foolish behaviour and desist from anarchical acts.
- It is currently descending into an anarchical civil war.
- The Celt, undisciplinable, anarchical, and turbulent by nature, but out of affection and admiration giving himself body and soul to some leader, that is not a promising political temperament, it is just the opposite of the Anglo-Saxon temperament, disciplinable and steadily obedient within certain limits, but retaining an inalienable part of freedom and self - dependence; but it is a temperament for which one has a kind of sympathy notwithstanding. Celtic Literature
- See Stella70 above before making any claims that secularist ideas promote anarchical moral nihilism. Law can be influenced by religion | Jonathan Chaplin
- And it certainly has a big budget, slickly produced theatrical feel to it, not the rough-around-the-edges rebellious almost anarchical spirit of some productions past. Charles Karel Bouley: Hair Is Still Groovy After All These Years
- It does possibly create a more anarchical and unethical world. Power in the Numbers
- If pluralism is a balance, the rise of binary oppositions upsets the balance in either an "anarchical" (in the bad sense) or tyrannical direction. Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats
- Jewish republic, reduced to slavery so often, was anarchical rather than theocratical. A Philosophical Dictionary