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单词 legalistic
释义

legalistic

/liːɡəˈlɪstɪk /
adjective
1Adhering excessively to law or formula: our conciliation process avoids an overly legalistic approach narrow legalistic definitions...
  • 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.
  • There is a need for an educational rather than legalistic policy on student access to the Internet.
1.1 Theology Concerning adherence to moral law rather than to personal religious faith: legalistic notions such as duty and obligation...
  • The book broke apart the puzzle pieces which he had spent decades clamping together into airtight legalistic arguments against God.
  • As we should expect, given the legalistic form of his ethical theory, Kant's political thought is jurisprudential.
  • The only discussion of Sufism is a dictionary reference to an "inner religion that is not legalistic."

Derivatives

legalistically

/-ˈlɪstɪk(ə)li/ adverb ...
  • Saturday's rally reminded me of the dangers of defining free speech legalistically.
  • He has quite legalistically denied any role in "leaking classified information."
  • The bill tried legalistically to right a political, moral wrong.
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