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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legalese
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And only rarely do they allow their managers to couch frank appraisals in canned legalese and innocuous psychobabble.
▪ Baer promptly did so, hiding behind a cloud of legalese to justify his action.
▪ However, the statement will be read by the witness and the client, and should not be written in legalese.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
legalese

legalese \legalese\ n. A style of writing or speaking heavily emphasizing the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law, to the point where a speech or document may be incomprehensible to non-specialists.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legalese

"the language of legal documents," 1914, from legal + language name ending -ese.

Wiktionary
legalese

n. 1 The technical talk of the legal profession, the argot of lawyers. 2 Wording that resembles how a lawyer writes, especially such that is confusing to the layperson.

WordNet
legalese

n. a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law

Usage examples of "legalese".

Thicker than the Corban phone book, it was a perfect bound document filled with nearly a hundred single-spaced pages of text, all written in dense legalese.

Benedict allows it, you can subpoena me to testify, that much legalese I understand.

After the endless hours of negotiation, her sentencing was dry and full of legalese.

On the table sat the leather-bound business plans containing all the lease conditions, the numbers, and paragraphs of legalese about the dummy corporation Quentin had established to export tropical fruit.