Definitions

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  • adjective Like, or becoming, a lawyer.

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  • adjective Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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lawyer +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Nick, she noticed, looked a bit less lawyerlike with his suit jacket slung on the back of his chair and his tie loosened.

    Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

  • Nick, she noticed, looked a bit less lawyerlike with his suit jacket slung on the back of his chair and his tie loosened.

    Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

  • Nick, she noticed, looked a bit less lawyerlike with his suit jacket slung on the back of his chair and his tie loosened.

    Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010

  • Typical lawyerlike manipulation of letter of the law.

    AP Picks Up Huff-Po Blogger’s Lame Smear Alleging Palin Plagiarism - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court.

    Joel Klein, Entrepreneur 2008

  • It was the kind of carefully worded, lawyerlike statement that Brown must have recognized with a chill.

    Dubious Commerce 2008

  • With or without much to recommend them, in soome respects they are nowadays accorded a number of lawyerlike privileges and are thought of, in relation to their clients, pretty much the same way lawyers are.

    A Consultant Explosion 2008

  • She charges $150 an hour and bills in lawyerlike six-minute increments.

    The 'Advice Threshold' 2007

  • He ended up having to hire a bar tutor to teach him how to write a lawyerlike essay.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Whether Affirmative Action in Law Schools Backfires on Prospective Black Lawyers: 2007

  • Which I guess made sense if you consider that the trendy twentysomethings paid lawyerlike salaries to produce and write content for their channels had worked in completely unrelated jobs—a hairstylist, a Saks counter makeup artist, and a former fashion model.

    Fired! Written 2006

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