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lawyerlike

lawyerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a lawyer.

Adjective

lawyerlike (comparative more lawyerlike, superlative most lawyerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a lawyer.
    • He analyzed the marketing of the chocolate with lawyerlike logic and came to the conclusion there was little special about it.2007 February 10, Damon Darlin, “Figuring Out Gift Giving in the Age of $2,000-a-Pound Chocolate”, in New York Times

Forms of lawyerlike

comparativemore lawyerlike
superlativemost lawyerlike

Origin of lawyerlike

From lawyer + -like.

Words formed from lawyerlike

Questions about lawyerlike

What does lawyerlike mean?
Lawyerlike means resembling or characteristic of a lawyer.
What part of speech is lawyerlike?
Lawyerlike is an adjective.

Words near lawyerlike in the dictionary

  1. lawyerings
  2. lawyerish
  3. lawyerism
  4. lawyerisms
  5. lawyerless
  6. lawyerlike
  7. lawyerliness
  8. lawyerling
  9. lawyerlings
  10. lawyerly
  11. lawyers

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