lawyerly

Examples

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• "Am I to construe that he did not gain from you that which he had hoped for?" he asked with lawyerly curiosity.

  Fiction book (1992)

• When he speaks again, his speech takes on the lawyerly tone of a man who's covering his own bases.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Did you set him straight with your lawyerly powers of persuasion?

  Cars 3 (2017)

• The flip side to that is the lawyerly tendency to let process dominate.

  Academic text (2000)

• One's head can explode if you try to keep up with the lawyerly mindset.

  Blog text (5)

• This is a wonderful lawyerly skill that can be honed to great precision.

  Academic text (1999)

• I had grown up with my father's lucid, lawyerly mind: a mind that could parse the cause-and-effect relations of an intricate problem, diagram it, and return it to you with its certain, settled solution.

  Fiction book (1996)

• His lawyerly arguments were so well-structured that they convinced the jury immediately.

• She approached the negotiation with a lawyerly caution, ensuring every detail was addressed.

Synonyms

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lawyerlike

vslawyerly

1 6.7

Showing the careful, exact way a person who gives legal advice thinks and speaks

is more about precise cautious and formal behavior or speech

How Lawyerly

legalistic

6 7.8

lawyerly

• Formal

5 7.0

precise

271 3.6

formal

• Formal

374 3.0

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