scofflaw

1. 1.

   one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses

   Broadercriminal

Other forms of scofflaw

plural

scofflaws·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scofflaw

What does scofflaw mean?

scofflaw means "one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses".

How many syllables are in scofflaw?

scofflaw has 2 syllables: scof-flaw. The stress falls on "scof".

Is scofflaw a common word?

scofflaw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.