ADJECTIVE
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(of individuals) adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs
observant of the speed limit
law-abiding citizens
How To Use law-abiding In A Sentence
- In addition, efforts were made to inculcate law-abiding attitudes and strengthen the unity of command principle.
- Our problem is we are the most law-abiding community, the pensioners - we weren't brought up to go mob-handed anywhere.
- Was he genuinely not aware of the sort of law-abiding person you are? Times, Sunday Times
- What about law-abiding citizens' human rights to be safe? The Sun
- Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
- Cyclists behaving like law-abiding citizens? Times, Sunday Times
- I am a law-abiding person. The Sun
- This must be the only case in history of the usual suspects being the most law-abiding citizens.
- But what it is doing is totally alienating otherwise law-abiding citizens and turning them into criminals.
- So the introduction of random breath tests should not be a problem for the law-abiding majority. The Sun