legalisticle‧gal‧ist‧ic /ˌliːɡəˈlɪstɪk◂/ adjective 
- Most businesses, especially small businesses, can not afford to squander vast sums of money on such refined legalistic nit-picking.
- The Inspector General's office took a severely legalistic view of the incident.
- The next he is a legalistic prude.
- The other weakness of the social contract model lies in its excessively rational and legalistic nature.
- The role of the Lawyer of course was to help in this task by giving interpretation and illumination in a legalistic capacity.
- Union resistance is no excuse for not making profit, nor is it an excuse for long legalistic job descriptions.
- Why the proliferation of these legalistic creatures in a society that has rarely embraced them?
- With the United States as its manager, it was an Anglo-Saxon rule-driven, legalistic system.
nounlegality ≠ illegalitylegalizationlegaleseillegaladjectivelegal ≠ illegallegalisticverblegalizeadverblegally ≠ illegally
a legalistic interpretation of the agreement