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Example sentences for: legalistic

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The TP's tenor and tone shift from legalistic to colloquial.
"The Pink Panther/Owens Corning Fiberglas commercial co-opting Fractured Fairytales . I hope moose-and-squirrel got mucho bucks out of them, considering the legalistic stink the P.P.
Few people understood that the results from the various counts represented a statistical tie, and that choosing which vote count was the "right" one was a matter of legalistic detail rather than scientific truth.
The entries include the facetious ( throat trouble Death by hanging; get or have a permanent To be executed by electrocution), the legal and legalistic ( executory devise A situation in which no estate vests under the will until the occurrence of a future event), the jargon-based ( psycho-weaponry Fear of death implanted in the minds of victims by terrorists; performance suicide Suicide in response to a sense of failure in meeting society's standards), the poetic ( pull a Frankie and Johnny To kill one's husband in revenge), the religious and mythological ( Petbe Egyptian myth .
"Clinton's behavior has been contemptible throughout, from his initial offences, to his legalistic evasions, to his unbearably mawkish and snivelling apologies," the paper said.