legalistic Definition

formalistic, legal, dogmatic, moralistic, pedantic, lawyerly, prescriptive, legalese, bureaucratic, proscriptive, doctrinal, rationalistic, doctrinaire, reductionist, simplistic, sanctimonious, tendentious, textualist, judgmental, absolutist, particularistic, exegetical, theological, formulaic, positivistic, hermeneutical, universalistic, adversarial, deontological, rigid, pietistic, hermeneutic, creedal, convoluted, pettifogging, sophistic, hortatory, obtuse, wordy, abstruse, obfuscating, prolix, jesuitical, ambiguous, definitional, terminological, syllogistic, dilatory, sophistical, nonsensical, sententious, kantian, arcane, undebatable, illiberal, disingenuous, jurisprudential, unenlightening, originalist, vague, manichaean, literal, reductive, discursive, accusatorial, rhetorical, manichean, ahistorical, didactic, longwinded, banal, meretricious, totalistic, hyperbolic, solipsistic, trite, depersonalized, epistemological, inflexible, specious, atomistic, infelicitous, straightforward, nuanced, platitudinous, rebarbative, rote, ineloquent, tautological, euphemistic, unedifying, contentless, manipulable, inquisitional, nabokovian, incomprehensive, accusative, fatuous, nebulous, contradictive,