lawyerly
Americanadjective
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The courtroom avenue, even if lawyerly successful, is hardly a solution to our youths’ psychological damage from screen addiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
At the table behind that sat former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet, slender and suited, with his own lawyerly retinue.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2025
In other words, it takes a whole host of qualities entirely alien to the lawyerly mind.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2025
Mesloh believes Harris’ natural rhetorical style is more lawyerly, when she can deliver a methodical case as if cross-examining a witness in front of a jury.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
He cautioned us when we got too lawyerly and posited careful questions intended to get us to think hard about why we felt the way we felt.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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