lawyerly
adjEtymology
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Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
- She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.
- Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.
In the manner of a lawyer.
- “That’s my name,” she said. “Could be another Blanche Smith,” she said, lawyerly.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA