How to Use legalese in a Sentence

legalese

noun

• I was confused by the legalese in the contract.
• You could be stuck in your legalese and call them a complainant.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 30 May 2018
• With that wonky bit of legalese, Congress smiled on the Bechtel clan.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
• The 57-page filing contains a lot of legalese that won’t make it onto the show.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
• Sounds less like legalese and more like a bad Hollywood script.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The deal is written in legalese and trade jargon that will be pored over by trade experts and lawyers.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
• To sound cliché, what all of this legalese means is that the truth, whatever that may be, is the best defense to defamation.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2017
• On the back is a dense page of fine-print legalese, which includes an extremely broad release.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 July 2023
• In dry legalese, the court documents recount the Russian state’s case against these statements and protests.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• But making the case for the rights of nature is a hard enough battle without stepping so far afield of the standard legalese.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Republic, 9 May 2018
• Now attorneys are involved and the language is filled with legalese and a more acerbic bite.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
• Fred Trump, then 85, had never before set eyes on the document, 12 pages of dense legalese.
  — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• The ballot will explain them in Abraham Lincoln-era legalese that will cross the eyes and scramble the brain of any non-jurist.
  — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
• What's more, the rule doesn't work retroactively, meaning that the Equifax legalese would not be covered anyway.
  — Brian Fung, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
• The surprising missive touched off days of frantic phone calls and parsing of legalese.
  — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
• Next, the group parsed a bit of legalese regarding the protections afforded the hosts of gleaners.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• In addition to the faux legalese, the coupon features the Starbucks logo, the company's iconic shade of green and photos of the chain's drinks.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
• Often, these agreements state, in dense legalese, that consumers don’t own the contents of their devices.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Instead of whiskey, we’d be fueled by a cocktail of righteousness and florid legalese.
  — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
• Of course, even LeVar might have had a difficult time with the double and triple negatives of legalese involved.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
• And though one announcement promises music, it’s not mentioned in the legalese.
  — Tara Nurin, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• With a mix of dull legalese and what reads like 1950s pulp fiction, the document describes a vision for bespoke AIs.
  — James Vlahos, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2019
• There are a few lawsuits that appear to have been filed in court, using the appropriate legalese.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• This was a coup attempt, and Eastman’s memo was merely a thin veneer of legalese to justify it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• The terms and conditions of each bond can differ widely, and those details are often buried in hundreds of pages of legalese.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• That big block of legalese gives Rockstar and Take-Two the right to change their mind about this laissez-faire attitude towards modding at any time, of course.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 June 2017
• Techcrunch points out a section of legalese which indicates that prosper expects to have $500 million in loans on its site in the coming year.
  — Julie Sloane, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2007
• Why not post this information to FaceApp's website, beyond the legalese?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2019
• Then there’s the matter of the ballot question’s hazy wording, drafted in dense legalese by Mexico’s supreme court.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
• Instead of legalese, the portal should approach people at the level that they are accustomed to being addressed.
  — Michael Stebbins and Eric D. Perakslis, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024