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词汇 example_english_clever-lawyer
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clever lawyer

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meanings of cleverand lawyer


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clever
adjective
uk /ˈklev.ər/ us /ˈklev.ɚ/
having or showing the ability to learn and understand things quickly ...
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lawyer
noun[C]
uk /ˈlɔɪ.ər/ us /ˈlɔɪ.jɚ/
someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them ...
See more at lawyer


Examples of clever lawyer


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He is a nice man and a cleverlawyer, but he appears to have been totally out of his depth.
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I fear that a determined landlord with the assistance of a cleverlawyer might pretend to be working out an access agreement almost indefinitely.
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They are frightened in court of facing what is perhaps generally regarded as a cleverlawyer who will tie them into knots.
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In one case, a damaging piece of information was slipped in by a cleverlawyer.
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This poacher had a cleverlawyer.
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His fear is that a cleverlawyer may seek to get a client off the hook by misconstruing that word.
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I have no doubt that some cleverlawyer would argue before a court that photographs of nude children are not indecent.
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The word "agricultural" in the title is a pure mistake, and that point may be raised by a cleverlawyer.
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I agree that a cleverlawyer can make inactivity look like culpability.
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Would not a cleverlawyer—there are plenty of clever lawyers in this place, as there are elsewhere—be able to use that as a defence?
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He was here at the beginning, disappeared for hours and has come back to try to be a cleverlawyer.
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There will always be those who will plead not guilty in hopeless cases before a jury in the hope that their cleverlawyer will get them off.
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If this had been the law of the land, as it was for a period, a cleverlawyer might have put somebody in difficulties with regard to these cases.
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To the public, he had got away with it thanks to a cleverlawyer.
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Clever lawyers have been able to get their clients acquitted.
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Clever lawyers and plausible insurance officers are employed to play upon a man's eagerness to return to work.
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Of course, developers have clever lawyers who now argue that it was really agricultural improvement all along, so they did not need planning permission.
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I can envisage clever lawyers advancing that argument in the courts.
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It was a clever lawyer's speech.
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Clever lawyers and plausible men, who play upon the miners' eagerness to return to work, are employed.
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