Definitions
Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
Word origin
From lawyer + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Used in a sentence
“She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.”
“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.”
““That’s my name,” she said. “Could be another Blanche Smith,” she said, lawyerly.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Like an attorney”8 letters
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