lawyerly
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lawyerly (comparative more lawyerly, superlative most lawyerly)
- Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
- She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
- Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.