[ US /ˈænɝˌki/ ]
[ UK /ˈænɑːki/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
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How To Use anarchy In A Sentence

  • The country has been in a state of anarchy since the inconclusive election.
  • The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
  • There was complete anarchy in the classroom when their usual teacher was away.
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • If the world is thought of in terms of anarchy then power politics will be seen as the solution to the problem of insecurity.
  • The high number of strikes resulted in near anarchy.
  • I especially liked Hans Brauer (Darby on Sons of Anarchy) as the supposedly hard-assed covert agent who folded like a little kid once he discovered This is Not a Game. Checkmate : Bev Vincent
  • Over the last two decades, predictions about the social effects of the Internet have ranged from cybernetic anarchy (both utopian and distopian) to the instantiation of a fascistic regime of surveillance that would make Orwell look like a piker. Discourse.net: I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17
  • Players cowered in fear as anarchy took hold on a famous Premier League ground. The Sun
  • A number of approaches to Shelley's 1819 have emphasized the distance between apparently activist poems -- The Mask of Anarchy, for exampleand what is deemed Shelley's High Style: presumably aestheticist, representationalist poetry of the "lyric I. Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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