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Example sentences for: legalistic

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

The focus on legalistic descriptions of punishable human behavior ignores unconscious behavior, the habits many men are accustomed to that don't call for punishment but are still harmful--what Conley says occurs within "the reverberating circuitry of maleness."
On the other hand, circumvent suggests avoiding what is mandatory and at the same time returns a more formal, legalistic atmosphere to the questioning.
To start, consider the expression to make sexual advances . Clearly the term has a formal (and legalistic) connotation which is hardly neutral.
As his fiancee, Vera Farmiga is seen only briefly but makes a searing impression: She's fierce and legalistic, and she fixates on the bottom-line questions in a way that frees her from looking at the moral ones.
But it doesn't want to say, so it hides behind the legalistic formula that Kendall and Begala "cannot prove" their allegations.