law-abiding
adjective/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
- obeying and respecting the law
- The police have been preventing ordinary law-abiding citizens from going about their own business.
Extra Examples- Law-abiding soccer fans are getting increasingly annoyed with the troublemakers.
- This new ruling could criminalize millions of law-abiding people.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLaw-abiding is used with these nouns:- citizen
- folk
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