scofflaw

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An iconoclast
One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets.)
one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
{i} one who scornfully violates the law

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scofflaws
plural of scofflaw
scofflaw

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    scoff·law

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    [ -"lo ] (noun.) 1924. Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the Prohibition era.Quinion, Michael, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm
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