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Etymology

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From lawyer +‎ -ly.

Adjective

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lawyerly (comparative more lawyerly, superlative most lawyerly)

  1. 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.

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