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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
Harry Browne

Meaning of "legalistic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LEGALISTIC

legalistic  [ˌliːɡəˈlɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEGALISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Legalistic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LEGALISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of legalistic in the English dictionary

The definition of legalistic in the dictionary is of, relating to, or exhibiting strict adherence to the law, esp to the letter of the law rather than its spirit.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LEGALISTIC


ballistic
bəˈlɪstɪk
evangelistic
ɪˌvændʒɪˈlɪstɪk
fatalistic
ˌfeɪtəˈlɪstɪk
holistic
həʊˈlɪstɪk
hyperrealistic
ˌhaɪpəˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk
idealistic
ˌaɪdɪəˈlɪstɪk
imperialistic
ɪmˌpɪərɪəˈlɪstɪk
individualistic
ˌɪndɪˌvɪdʒʊəˈlɪstɪk
journalistic
ˌdʒɜːnəˈlɪstɪk
kabbalistic
ˌkæbəˈlɪstɪk
materialistic
məˌtɪərɪəˈlɪstɪk
minimalistic
ˌmɪnɪməˈlɪstɪk
nationalistic
ˌnæʃənəˈlɪstɪk
naturalistic
ˌnætʃrəˈlɪstɪk
photojournalistic
ˌfəʊtəʊˌdʒɜːnəˈlɪstɪk
photorealistic
ˌfəʊtəʊˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk
probabilistic
ˌprɒbəbəˈlɪstɪk
realistic
ˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk
stylistic
staɪˈlɪstɪk
unrealistic
ˌʌnrɪəˈlɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEGALISTIC

legal process
legal profession
legal redress
legal representation
legal separation
legal successor
legal system
legal tender
legalese
legalise
legaliser
legalism
legalist
legalistically
legalities
legality
legalization
legalize
legalizer
legally

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEGALISTIC

anachronistic
antagonistic
artistic
autistic
characteristic
deterministic
domestic
floristic
futuristic
heuristic
linguistic
logistic
mechanistic
opportunistic
optimistic
pessimistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
synergistic
touristic

Synonyms and antonyms of legalistic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LEGALISTIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «legalistic» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of legalistic

Translation of «legalistic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEGALISTIC

Find out the translation of legalistic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of legalistic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «legalistic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

墨守陈规
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

legalista
570 millions of speakers

English

legalistic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

legalistic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قانونيه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

законнической
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

legalista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

legalistic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

légaliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undang-undang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

legalistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

律法主義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

율법
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Legalistic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính pháp lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சட்டப்பூர்வமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कायदेशीरपणात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yasalcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

legalistico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

legalistyczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

законнической
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

legalistă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νομικίστικη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wettiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

legalistic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

legalistisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of legalistic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEGALISTIC»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about legalistic

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2 QUOTES WITH «LEGALISTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word legalistic.
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Harry Browne
The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
2
Stanley Hauerwas
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEGALISTIC»

Discover the use of legalistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to legalistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lawful Or Legalistic
The law contains a "shadow" but the "substance" is of Christ (Col. 2:16-17). This book gives a penetrating scriptural perspective to the question of whether believers ignore the shadow and just keep the substance. (Christian)
Bill Nugent, 2006
2
The Legalistic organization
In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace.
Sim B. Sitkin, Robert J. Bies, 1994
3
Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation ...
Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, which in the 1970s helped bring recalcitrant bureaucracies into line with a growing national commitment to civil rights and ...
Charles R. Epp, 2010
4
Pardons
The roots of the views that I have chosen to group under the title 'legalistic retributivism' go back beyond Kant at least to St. Thomas Aquinas. In the twentieth century, a tentative version of legalistic retributivitism appeared in H. L. A. Hart's The ...
Kathleen Dean Moore, 1997
5
Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and ...
Legalistic Christians see the big picture concerning God, Jesus and Christianity mostly in terms of vicarious sacrifice, while non-legalistic Christians see the cross in love terms as opposed to forensic terms. 2. Legalistic Christians believe the ...
James C. Alexander, 2008
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Urban Policing in Canada: Anatomy of an Aging Craft
Police officers, in general, tend to underenforce the law, but in areas targeted by a legalistic department they attempt rigourous enforcement, albeit without full success. There is pressure in such depar- tements to issue traffic tickets; with the  ...
Maurice A. Martin, 1995
7
Overruled: The Legalistic and Managerial Models of ...
Empirical data on adjudications from two paired sets of federal agencies is used to test the conventional wisdom that Legalistic agencies will, all other things being equal, perform better than Managerial agencies.
Jeffrey A. Wertkin, 2008
8
Legislation in Context: Essays in Legisprudence
On the strong legalistic view, practical matters are transformed into theoretical ones. Under the proxy model of legitimation, the sovereign is irrefutably presumed to have followed the rules of the constitution. On this point, Lawrence Friedman's ...
Professor Luc J Wintgens, 2013
9
Paradoxes of Police Work
The deterrent impact of Legalistic policing is palpable and one of the strong suits of this style. A second, critical strength of the Legalistic style is that it works to create and maintain a single standard everywhere. There is one penal code— one ...
Douglas Perez, 2010
10
Paradoxes of Leadership in Police Management
Under the legalistic style, police discretion is limited. To be an officer is to fight crime and make arrests. judges and juries decide what to do about suspects; the job of the police is to bring people before the bar. The legalistic officer enforces the ...
Douglas Perez, Michael Barkhurst, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEGALISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term legalistic is used in the context of the following news items.
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5 good reasons to go to church on holiday | Christian News on …
Let's be clear, this is not a nagging, legalistic, finger-pointing injunction to join a church service while you are on holiday. In fact there are plenty ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
2
Paul Prather: A 1992 interview with Southern Baptist preacher Will …
These people are — I don't say they're not religious because they certainly are religious — but it's a legalistic religion. It's not a religion of grace ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
3
Update on 'Operation Ghetto Storm,' Part 2 | Opinion | teleSUR English
An unknown number of the parents and other loved ones of those who died have had to endure legalistic contortions and media campaigns ... «teleSUR English, Jul 15»
4
'Coontown': A noxious, racist corner of Reddit survives recent purge …
Huffman tried to explain, making quite the legalistic distinction. “We'll consider banning subreddits that clearly violate the guidelines in my post ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
5
Mr. President, you're doing clemency wrong. It's not about the law …
Obama's narrow, legalistic approach to clemency blocks his own broad reform goals and excludes many of the most deserving prisoners. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
Sensationalism on US gay-marriage ruling
Notwithstanding the fact that deliberations that ensued in the USA, concerning homosexuality, were predominantly of legalistic nature, the ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
7
COMMENTARY: Obama is wrong: Granting clemency isn't a legal …
Obama's narrow, legalistic approach to clemency blocks his own broad reform goals and excludes many of the most deserving prisoners. «Monitor, Jul 15»
8
OPINION: Public Service Board Hearing Process a Sham
... an almost incomprehensible sequence of legalistic hoops before someone at the Public Service Board will even consider reading my input. «Montpelier Bridge, Jul 15»
9
EID: Unfair Trade Practices
... remarkable piece of legislation for its focus and clear objective, the minimal technical and legalistic procedures, providing access to redressal ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jul 15»
10
Hold the Backpage | The Economist
The site's supporters make a less legalistic defence: women who advertise themselves on the website do not have to walk the street, with all the ... «The Economist, Jul 15»

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