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Support with a tilt is condemned initially according to law
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legalistic
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Word definitions for legalistic in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Most businesses, especially small businesses, can not afford to squander vast sums of money on such refined legalistic nit-picking. ▪ The Inspector General's office took a severely legalistic view of the incident. ▪ The ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a person, following the letter of the law. 2 Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently. 3 Practicing or characterized by legalism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, from legalist (1640s); see legal + -istic .
Usage examples of legalistic.
The Muslim operates under a legalistic system embracing five essentials: the creed, prayers, almsgiving, fasting and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Since the legalistic hoaxsters argue against statutes of limitations for claims going back more than one century past, why not go back fifty centuries and have all Jewish people make claim for reparations against all Egyptians?
Mike was, for the nonce, the acknowledged sovereign of Mars under the legalistic malarky of the Larkin precedent .
To say the Marines regarded this as a form of patent infringement was to give their feelings an altogether too dry and legalistic coloration.
And that, by and large, was that, apart from the legalistic regularisation of the situation into one analogous with Nigeria, the setting up of a "British Crown Colony and Protectorate".