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legal
adjective as in allowable, permissible
Weak matches
- acknowledged
- allowed
- authorized
- card-carrying
- chartered
- clean
- condign
- decreed
- due
- enforceable
- enforced
- enjoined
- forensic
- granted
- innocent
- judged
- judicial
- just
- justifiable
- justified
- legalized
- legit
- licit
- on the level
- on the up and up
- ordained
- passed
- precedented
- prescribed
- protected
- right
- rightful
- sanctioned
- sound
- straight
- sure-enough
- warranted
- within the law
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Example Sentences
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
What if there were a legal dispute between the foreign investor and his or her Egyptian partners or collaborators?
However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
He was guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what is called, I believe, in legal phrase, a side-issue.
The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.
The seizure was made in legal form; the banker, who lost nothing, was bound to comply with it.
This little book contains many of the legal principles that are in most frequent use, as readers will learn who carefully read it.
The law only gave you the right to proceed against him to recover money damages for the legal injury.
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On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to legal, such as: constitutional, contractual, fair, juridical, lawful, and legitimate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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