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aˈttorneyism
[See -ism.]
The practice of attorneys, or that attributed to the ‘rascally attorney’; unscrupulous cleverness. (Vituperative.)
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1871) III. vii. v. 258 Vanish, then, thou rat-eyed Incarnation of Attorneyism. 1864― Fredk. Gt. IV. ii, Instinctively abhorrent of attorneyism and the swindler element. 1884Sat. Rev. 28 June 835/2 The peculiarity, however, of that kind of cleverness which..is called attorneyism, is that it frequently overreaches itself. |