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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legalistic
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 next he is a legalistic prude.
▪ The other weakness of the social contract model lies in its excessively rational and legalistic nature.
▪ The role of the Lawyer of course was to help in this task by giving interpretation and illumination in a legalistic capacity.
▪ Union resistance is no excuse for not making profit, nor is it an excuse for long legalistic job descriptions.
▪ Why the proliferation of these legalistic creatures in a society that has rarely embraced them?
▪ With the United States as its manager, it was an Anglo-Saxon rule-driven, legalistic system.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legalistic

1843, from legalist (1640s); see legal + -istic.

Wiktionary
legalistic

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.

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".