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US
/ˌənɛnˈfɔɹst/
]
[ UK /ˌʌnɛnfˈɔːst/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɛnfˈɔːst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not enforced; not compelled especially by legal or police action
too many unenforced laws can breed contempt for law
How To Use unenforced In A Sentence
- Many of the 240 environmental treaties enacted over the past 80 years remain unratified and unenforced.
- Both managers resisted the current fashion for making unenforced changes after the hectic seasonal programme. Times, Sunday Times
- Unenforced law is a pernicious thing; resentment between neighbours is stirred; and nobody knows what to do. Times, Sunday Times
- Australia are also pondering at least one unenforced change. Times, Sunday Times
- What about price inelastic sectors where bad, light or unenforced regulation would create unimaginable misery? The Times Literary Supplement
- In the real world, the laws go unenforced and impunity is the norm, " she said.
- The list of such unenforced judgments is, however, long. Times, Sunday Times
- When ticket touting is allowed to go unchecked, the law of the land unenforced, we are asking for trouble. The Sun
- too many unenforced laws can breed contempt for law
- The rite of churching (originally purification, later just thanksgiving), unenforced but very popular, symbolically marked the end of lying-in.