legalese

Example Sentences

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"New language framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will," she said.

From BBC

“New language framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.”

From The Wall Street Journal

By design, the details of how "freedom cities" would be established are laden with legalese like "federal enclaves with special economic and jurisdictional zones" or "interstate compacts."

From Salon

She now wants to do Pilates after work, and the long hours she spends working and learning legalese have kept her mental faculties in check.

From Los Angeles Times

A moment of levity came as Justice Mechan decided they would strike the convoluted word "eleemosynary" - used here as legalese for charitable - from the instructions.

From BBC