Lawyerlike

Nick, she noticed, looked a bit less lawyerlike with his suit jacket slung on the back of his chair and his tie loosened. ❋ Allison Leotta (2010)

Typical lawyerlike manipulation of letter of the law. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was the kind of carefully worded, lawyerlike statement that Brown must have recognized with a chill. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With or without much to recommend them, in soome respects they are nowadays accorded a number of lawyerlike privileges and are thought of, in relation to their clients, pretty much the same way lawyers are. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She charges $150 an hour and bills in lawyerlike six-minute increments. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He ended up having to hire a bar tutor to teach him how to write a lawyerlike essay. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Which I guess made sense if you consider that the trendy twentysomethings paid lawyerlike salaries to produce and write content for their channels had worked in completely unrelated jobs—a hairstylist, a Saks counter makeup artist, and a former fashion model. ❋ Written (2006)

More typically, the appellants tried hard embarrassingly so to be lawyerlike in their prose. ❋ Burke, Alafair (2004)

We were aggressive, but our people were very scholarly and lawyerlike. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Marina had a very agile mind, and a positively lawyerlike ability to find a way, however tangled and convoluted the path might be, of getting around any promises she'd made if she truly wanted something. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

But the Senators pressed on, displaying a lawyerlike determination to close every means of rhetorical escape: Case -- "What does flexibility mean?" ❋ Unknown (1999)

She attained her goals not by flamboyant emotionalism but by the most extraordinary lawyerlike, persuasive performance before the Court. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)