Example sentences for: lawyerly

How can you use “lawyerly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • But this lawyerly parsing misses the larger moral challenge: The distinction between organisms and nonorganisms is collapsing.


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