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For all this quasi-legal chicanery, Seattle’s $3 million got a report of what only 1,463 people thought should be priorities for participatory budgeting.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2021

My favorite is the rare quasi-legal term “adjudged,” as in, when something is adjudged to be a foul, which means that it probably wasn’t.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2019

This quasi-legal industry remains unregulated and potentially full of snake oil salesmen.

From The Verge • Oct. 3, 2018

But the village of Parco Saraceno receives little in the way of municipal services, existing in a quasi-legal limbo, and inhabitants did not want their full names published because of the village’s gray legal status.

From New York Times • May 17, 2017

The philanthropic nature of the poor-law is indicated by its antecedents: once enacted, its bounties became a right; its philanthropy disappeared in a quasi-legal claim.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various