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Lawless vs Clawless - What's the difference?

lawless | clawless |

As adjectives the difference between lawless and clawless

is that lawless is not governed by any law while clawless is having no claws.

lawless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not governed by any law.
  • Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal.
  • Not restrained by the law or by discipline; unruly, disorderly.
  • Derived terms

    * lawlessness

    clawless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no claws.
  • * 1920 , Journal of Genetics (volume 9, page 165)
  • Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed, indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.