Example Sentences

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As for the two trials, there are some similarities of less importance than the dissimilarities that are legalistically quite distinguishing.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Amid bracing attacks on his integrity, he answered curtly and legalistically, only occasionally seeming offended.

From New York Times • May 1, 2019

You don’t watch this like it’s “Law and Order,” searching legalistically for clues of innocence or guilt.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2018

Getting married does not mean that all future trips and experiences and delights must be split legalistically down the middle.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2016

They did not feel it “proper” to “expropriate the creator” and legalistically appropriate the earth and its treasure for themselves.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred