Pertaining to legalism or to legalists.

adjective. Of a person, following the letter of the law.

adjective. Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently.

adjective. Practicing or characterized by legalism.

"But to any freedom-loving Ethiopian or any other reasonable human being, the "pardon" is nothing more than the reveries of a self-absorbed megalomaniac garbed in legalistic hokum."

legalism  legalist  

Hellenistic  Mechanistic  altruistic  anachronistic  antagonistic  

Down East  anti-racist  bankers'  bullshit  cabalistical  

cavilling  contentious  conventionalized  disputatious  extrinsic