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What is legalese?

What is legalese? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (informal, pejorative) Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers
  2. (informal, pejorative) Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople, bureaucratese, officialese
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Unfortunately, the disclosures are hard to read due to legalese and boilerplate language.
I guarantee it is no less full of scientific mumbo jumbo than a purchase and sale agreement is full of legalese.
If you have a policy that is 25 pages of single-spaced, dense legalese, people simply will not be able to find the answers that they want.
But if we start to legalese soft drugs then people will move onto a bigger hit and we will have a more violent society.
The Supreme Court decisions that he attacks are written in difficult, if not impenetrable, legalese.
His survival depends on audiences who will not accept fact-free reporting and who recognize gossip packaged in legalese.

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