Words similar to lawyerly

Example sentences for: lawyerly

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The Washington Week in Review (PBS) panel lashed Clinton for returning to form by giving "lawyerly, hair-splitting answers" to straightforward questions when what the nation wanted was his outraged denial (Mara Liasson).
But this lawyerly parsing misses the larger moral challenge: The distinction between organisms and nonorganisms is collapsing.
What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.
However, this is not good lawyerly advice.
Judges--who, in one sense, are merely lawyers in robes--when they are on the bench also continue the lawyerly practice of begining with a desired result and then working backwards to arguments that perhaps support it.