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Example sentences for: lawyerly
How can you use “lawyerly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The consensus is that Bumpers' aw-shucks style and his rhetorical flourishes were viewed by the Senate audience as a refreshing contrast to the lawyerly nit-picking (such as that displayed by Clinton private attorney David Kendall, who also spoke yesterday) that had heretofore carried the day.
According to the NYT , the Clinton inner circle realizes the major political drawback of this line: reinforcing the notion of Clinton (in the NYT 's choice phrase) as "a lawyerly manipulator of language use to evade responsibility.
However, this is not good lawyerly advice.
What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.
But this lawyerly parsing misses the larger moral challenge: The distinction between organisms and nonorganisms is collapsing.
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