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lawyerlyadjective
Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer
She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.
Webster Dictionary
Lawyerlyadjective
like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lawyerly in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lawyerly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of lawyerly in a Sentence
Vladimir Putin will embrace the idea that we might self-deter every time he issues a press release. And lawyerly hair-splitting about providing this kind of weaponry is not escalatory but providing that kind of weaponry is escalatory – I don't think we really believe that, i think the administration is pushing the intelligence community to give them cover for lean forward decisions they don't want to be making.
Crisis communications 101 is to get all the facts out as soon as possible. The White House has done the opposite of that, letting news drip out day after day. The President should have addressed this directly days ago, waiting until Thursday and then giving a very lawyerly statement only feeds the scandal.
She really spent a lot of time understanding the immigration statute. What worked, what didn't work and what could be made better. And it was kind of a very lawyerly approach, but I mean that in the best of ways.
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