Example Sentences

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Otherwise, the two criminal trials are very different legalistically.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Is it interesting that a man who spent years trying to prove that an evasive and lawyerly president lied ended up agonizing over how exactly to legalistically phrase his own failures?

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2021

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

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