justicelike

Example Sentences

• "JUSTICELIKE. adj. Resembling the character of a magistrate. / He by conversing with them is turned into a justicelike servingman. / [William] Shakespeare, Henry IV, p[ar]t. ii, a[ct]. iv, s[cene]. 3."
• "It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men’s spirits and his: They, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justicelike serving-man; their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild geese."
• "The boys were badly scared by the austere and justicelike manner of ’Squire Eiler."
• "A cigarette started the blaze that caused the loss of a million and a half of dollars at Coney Island. That sounds consistent and poetic-justicelike."
• "And in Washington, where the nine members of the Supreme Court are almost the only government officials who do not joust with the press corps, he maintained a strict justicelike silence when he appeared last week in the White House press room with Reagan — to the point, as one veteran journalist querulously put it, of “not even saying thank you” after his introduction."
• "But when he tries to get obsessive CIA agent Brandt (Elias Koteas) in charge of the case to do something justicelike about it, Gordy’s brushed off."