anarchic

adj

1. Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy.
2. Chaotic, without law or order.

   “Distinctions must be drawn here: love is anarchic, marriage is not.”

   “The first of these is the potential for Central and Eastern Europe to become a region of unfettered and anarchic free market capitalism.”

   “The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.””

3. (derogatory, uncommon)Free-spirited; not bound by the rigors or expectations of society.

   “Lying is just another word for language at its most anarchic, free from any allegiance, or debt, to things as they are.”

   “Frazer comments on this tendency of his text not only directly, in the preface already quoted, but also indirectly, by taking as one of his principal themes various saturnalian festivals that, in their glorification of "general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown aside" (ibid., p. 666), in effect bring the principle of free play to its supreme, virtually anarchic expression.”

   “Wharton's anarchic celebration of a particular, “ illegitimate," passionate motherhood allows her to launch a devastating critique of "legitimate" family life within marriage and to reveal the centrality of female, sexual desire to her tales and the lives of her characters.”

   “Revisiting The Wild Wigglers signified how anarchic, original and formative this work had been and how it informed and shaped our subsequent choreographic and performative language.”

   “Previously, jazz had encompassed a continual history of supposed death throes—be it the arrival of "sweet," white big-band music; militant bebop; softer cool jazz; or, finally, anarchic free jazz and rock-influenced fusion.”