How to Use legalese in a Sentence

legalese

noun
Definition of legalesenext
Synonyms for legalesenext
  • You could be stuck in your legalese and call them a complainant.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • With that wonky bit of legalese, Congress smiled on the Bechtel clan.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The 57-page filing contains a lot of legalese that won’t make it onto the show.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Sounds less like legalese and more like a bad Hollywood script.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The deal is written in legalese and trade jargon that will be pored over by trade experts and lawyers.
    — William Mauldin, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
  • To sound cliché, what all of this legalese means is that the truth, whatever that may be, is the best defense to defamation.
    — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2017
  • On the back is a dense page of fine-print legalese, which includes an extremely broad release.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • In dry legalese, the court documents recount the Russian state’s case against these statements and protests.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • But making the case for the rights of nature is a hard enough battle without stepping so far afield of the standard legalese.
    — Rachel Riederer, The New Republic, 9 May 2018
  • Now attorneys are involved and the language is filled with legalese and a more acerbic bite.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Fred Trump, then 85, had never before set eyes on the document, 12 pages of dense legalese.
    — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The ballot will explain them in Abraham Lincoln-era legalese that will cross the eyes and scramble the brain of any non-jurist.
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • What's more, the rule doesn't work retroactively, meaning that the Equifax legalese would not be covered anyway.
    — Brian Fung, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The surprising missive touched off days of frantic phone calls and parsing of legalese.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Next, the group parsed a bit of legalese regarding the protections afforded the hosts of gleaners.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • In addition to the faux legalese, the coupon features the Starbucks logo, the company's iconic shade of green and photos of the chain's drinks.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Often, these agreements state, in dense legalese, that consumers don’t own the contents of their devices.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Instead of whiskey, we’d be fueled by a cocktail of righteousness and florid legalese.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • Of course, even LeVar might have had a difficult time with the double and triple negatives of legalese involved.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
  • And though one announcement promises music, it’s not mentioned in the legalese.
    — Tara Nurin, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • With a mix of dull legalese and what reads like 1950s pulp fiction, the document describes a vision for bespoke AIs.
    — James Vlahos, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2019
  • There are a few lawsuits that appear to have been filed in court, using the appropriate legalese.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • This was a coup attempt, and Eastman’s memo was merely a thin veneer of legalese to justify it.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The terms and conditions of each bond can differ widely, and those details are often buried in hundreds of pages of legalese.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • That big block of legalese gives Rockstar and Take-Two the right to change their mind about this laissez-faire attitude towards modding at any time, of course.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 June 2017
  • Techcrunch points out a section of legalese which indicates that prosper expects to have $500 million in loans on its site in the coming year.
    — Julie Sloane, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2007
  • Why not post this information to FaceApp's website, beyond the legalese?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2019
  • Then there’s the matter of the ballot question’s hazy wording, drafted in dense legalese by Mexico’s supreme court.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • Dry legalese and generic aliases could do nothing to tone down the tale of the scheme to protect Trump outlined in court documents Tuesday.
    — Eric Tucker, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Instead of legalese, the portal should approach people at the level that they are accustomed to being addressed.
    — Michael Stebbins and Eric D. Perakslis, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023

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