Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a lawyer; befitting a lawyer.
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- adjective Characteristic of, or suitable to, a
lawyer
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of the material in the case is what I call "lawyerly".
Forbes.com: News Peter J Reilly 2011
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Remember it well: Only fools engage in lawyerly “civility” without being sure to get something in return.
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Often people do not make these claims in lawyerly ways; and usually they are not constrained by existing understandings and existing doctrine in the way that we want judges to be constrained.
Balkinization 2006
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Barbara Bintliff wrote about the changes in lawyerly thinking in the 1990's and still nobody has any plan of action to address what many of us agree is happening.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Barbara Bintliff wrote about the changes in lawyerly thinking in the 1990's and still nobody has any plan of action to address what many of us agree is happening.
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His predecessor, Kevin J. Martin, who was known as a lawyerly FCC chairman, "got his hands dirty" on the legal issues, according to public interest advocate Marvin Ammori, a former adviser for Free Press.
FCC's Julius Genachowski struggles between roles of regulator, innovator Cecilia Kang 2010
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His predecessor, Kevin J. Martin, who was known as a lawyerly FCC chairman, "got his hands dirty" on the legal issues, according to public interest advocate Marvin Ammori, a former adviser for Free Press.
FCC's Julius Genachowski struggles between roles of regulator, innovator Cecilia Kang 2010
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His predecessor, Kevin J. Martin, who was known as a lawyerly FCC chairman, "got his hands dirty" on the legal issues, according to public interest advocate Marvin Ammori, a former adviser for Free Press.
FCC's Julius Genachowski struggles between roles of regulator, innovator Cecilia Kang 2010
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His predecessor, Kevin J. Martin, who was known as a lawyerly FCC chairman, "got his hands dirty" on the legal issues, according to public interest advocate Marvin Ammori, a former adviser for Free Press.
FCC's Julius Genachowski struggles between roles of regulator, innovator Cecilia Kang 2010
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I wanted, desperately needed for him to reach across the line that he had drawn, and so it was with dumb horror that I watched him retreat, his expression turning lawyerly even as I read the helplessness in his eyes.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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