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
• A little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, the legalese of it all.
  — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
• On the back is a dense page of fine-print legalese, which includes an extremely broad release.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 July 2023
• To help parse the legalese, Lex Machina has developed a set of rules—a sort of legal grammar for the machine.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2013
• 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
• In Amazon’s case, consent is often buried in legalese, and few have the time—or expertise—to parse.
  — Jason Snyder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
• 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.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What's more, the rule doesn't work retroactively, meaning that the Equifax legalese would not be covered anyway.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• What's more, the rule doesn't work retroactively, meaning that the Equifax legalese would not be covered anyway.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 6 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
• While crouched in legalese, the bond documents are full of warnings that investors might not get their money back.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
• 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
• Then in comes Hamill's Mr. Pym, the family's undefeated lawyer, to shut them all up with legalese.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2023
• 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