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hyperlegal

hyperlegal adjective: making very great or excessive use of the legal system.

Adjective

hyperlegal (comparative more hyperlegal, superlative most hyperlegal)

  1. Making very great or excessive use of the legal system.
    • We need to explore this hyperlegal negation of civil existence.2013, Colin Dayan, The Law is a White Dog, page 72
    • Some actions the government is taking at sea against asylum seekers are likely so egregious under international law that no amount of hyperlegal sophistry could justify them, hence the need for obfuscation and hiding these actions […]2022, Azadeh Dastyari, Amy Nethery, Asher Hirsch, Refugee Externalisation Policies

Forms of hyperlegal

comparativemore hyperlegal
superlativemost hyperlegal

Origin of hyperlegal

From hyper- + legal.

Questions about hyperlegal

What does hyperlegal mean?
Hyperlegal means making very great or excessive use of the legal system.
What part of speech is hyperlegal?
Hyperlegal is an adjective.

Words near hyperlegal in the dictionary

  1. hyperlearning
  2. hyperlect
  3. hyperlects
  4. hyperledger
  5. hyperledgers
  6. hyperlegal
  7. hyperlegible
  8. hyperlens
  9. hyperlenses
  10. hyperleptinaemia
  11. hyperleptinaemic

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