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Definition of legalistic in English: legalisticadjective liːɡəˈlɪstɪk 1Adhering excessively to law or formula. our conciliation process avoids an overly legalistic approach narrow legalistic definitions Example sentencesExamples - The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles.
- They fail to understand why simply sending out a legalistic privacy brochure isn't enough to satisfy most consumers.
- Common phrasing is substituted for legalistic wording.
- The latest draft agreement was unduly complicated and legalistic.
- The police often applied their own standards - rather than legalistic ones - in deciding whether to arrest boys.
- This is not to be taken as a recipe for a legalistic interpretation of the Convention.
- Money dues lent themselves more easily to negotiation in detail, and so encouraged a more legalistic attitude towards relations between lords and tenants.
- There is a need for an educational rather than legalistic policy on student access to the Internet.
- They seemed to favor a protracted, multilateral and legalistic approach to international affairs.
- You have written me yet another unfriendly, legalistic letter.
- 1.1Theology Concerning adherence to moral law rather than to personal religious faith.
legalistic notions such as duty and obligation Example sentencesExamples - The only discussion of Sufism is a dictionary reference to an "inner religion that is not legalistic."
- It is an easy matter to find self-identified Hindus and self-identified Muslims who share more significant religious beliefs with one another than either shares with many (ritualistic or legalistic) members of "their own" religions.
- Stage Five is the social-contract legalistic orientation: adults adopt an essentially utilitarian moral point of view
- The book broke apart the puzzle pieces which he had spent decades clamping together into airtight legalistic arguments against God.
- The Islamic legalistic notion of ijtihad is the historically accepted practice of reinterpreting the Qur'anic philosophy of human relations based on the political, educational, cultural, and economic norms of a specific era.
- As we should expect, given the legalistic form of his ethical theory, Kant's political thought is jurisprudential.
Derivatives adverb-ˈlɪstɪk(ə)li When Christians think of the Torah and law, they think legalistically, but really so much of Jewish law is concerned about how do you live with other people. Example sentencesExamples - Many Conservative Catholics began arguing legalistically about whether this war would be "just".
- How can you ensure this legalistically if it does not correspond to the law?
- The bill tried legalistically to right a political, moral wrong.
- The case may be legalistically arguable but it is not exactly in keeping with the underlying spirit of the accord.
- Saturday's rally reminded me of the dangers of defining free speech legalistically.
- The border issue is legalistically entangled and complicated.
- He has quite legalistically denied any role in "leaking classified information."
- The country's legal system is administered overly legalistically.
- I think informed consent is an absolute farce legalistically, morally, ethically.
Definition of legalistic in US English: legalisticadjectiveˌlēɡəˈlistik 1Adhering excessively to law or formula. our conciliation process avoids an overly legalistic approach narrow legalistic definitions Example sentencesExamples - They seemed to favor a protracted, multilateral and legalistic approach to international affairs.
- The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles.
- Common phrasing is substituted for legalistic wording.
- The police often applied their own standards - rather than legalistic ones - in deciding whether to arrest boys.
- They fail to understand why simply sending out a legalistic privacy brochure isn't enough to satisfy most consumers.
- You have written me yet another unfriendly, legalistic letter.
- This is not to be taken as a recipe for a legalistic interpretation of the Convention.
- The latest draft agreement was unduly complicated and legalistic.
- Money dues lent themselves more easily to negotiation in detail, and so encouraged a more legalistic attitude towards relations between lords and tenants.
- There is a need for an educational rather than legalistic policy on student access to the Internet.
- 1.1Theology Concerning adherence to moral law rather than to personal religious faith.
legalistic notions such as duty and obligation Example sentencesExamples - The only discussion of Sufism is a dictionary reference to an "inner religion that is not legalistic."
- As we should expect, given the legalistic form of his ethical theory, Kant's political thought is jurisprudential.
- The book broke apart the puzzle pieces which he had spent decades clamping together into airtight legalistic arguments against God.
- Stage Five is the social-contract legalistic orientation: adults adopt an essentially utilitarian moral point of view
- The Islamic legalistic notion of ijtihad is the historically accepted practice of reinterpreting the Qur'anic philosophy of human relations based on the political, educational, cultural, and economic norms of a specific era.
- It is an easy matter to find self-identified Hindus and self-identified Muslims who share more significant religious beliefs with one another than either shares with many (ritualistic or legalistic) members of "their own" religions.
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