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Like Rumpole we lay drunk on railway
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lawyerly
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Word definitions for lawyerly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lawyerlike \Law"yer*like`\, Lawyerly \Law"yer*ly\, a. Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. ``Lawyerly mooting of this point.'' --Milton.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer
Usage examples of lawyerly.
My blue Hermes tie looked sort of aqua on camera, and my hair was a bit messy, but my expression was a lawyerly one of quiet optimism.
Vimhoff was supposed to get our offices cleaned twice a week and I realized with a flash of lawyerly insight that the overflowing wastebaskets were my defense to being late with the rent.
Sitting in an armchair and sipping the whisky, I read through all the minor bequests to people like Arthur Bellbrook, and all the lawyerly gobbledegook "upon trust" and without commas, and came finally to the plain language.
How calm these people looked, how incredibly calm, both men and women red-eyed from crying, and all in their lawyerly tropical wool and oxford cloth.