单词 | attorneyism |
释义 | attorneyismn. The practice of attorneys, or that attributed to the ‘rascally attorney’; unscrupulous cleverness. (Vituperative.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > astuteness > unscrupulous attorneyism1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. v. 424 Vanish, then, thou rat-eyed Incarnation of Attorneyism. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ix. 128 Instinctively abhorrent of attorneyism and the swindler element. 1884 Sat. Rev. 28 June 835/2 The peculiarity, however, of that kind of cleverness which..is called attorneyism, is that it frequently overreaches itself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1837 |
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