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hyperlegal

adj

Etymology

From hyper- + legal.

  1. learned borrowing from lēgālis
  2. prefixed as hyperlegal — “hyper + legal”

Definitions

  1. Making very great or excessive use of the legal system.

    • We need to explore this hyperlegal negation of civil existence.
    • Some actions the government is taking at sea against asylum seekers are likely so egregious under international law that no amount of hyperlegal sophistry could justify them, hence the need for obfuscation and hiding these actions […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA