lawyerly.
Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
Meaning & usage
Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English lawyer Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English lawyerly From lawyer + -ly (adjectival suffix).
In the manner of a lawyer.
Where this word comes from
From lawyer + -ly (adverbial suffix), after the adjective.
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