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Example sentences for: lawyerly

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What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.
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.
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).
However, this is not good lawyerly advice.
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.