Meaning of rules-lawyer | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [C1]

Examples

“And the pencil-necked geek is a fully juiced-up young vampire who has rules-lawyered himself around to some very interesting conclusions about his own⟳ freedom of action within the constraints Basil specified, and who is extremely pissed off right now because he has third-degree burns across most of his face⟳.”

“Saladin, when fighting against the Crusades, famously rules-lawyered his way around this to kill⟳ the (richly deserving) Raynald of Châtillon, by giving water to his other prisoner, who then gave it to Raynald.”

“But as horrors made colony a dirty word, the Age of Empires gave way only to an Age of Excuses, when superpowers learned to rules-lawyer Justice, Democracy, even Freedom and Revolution into pliable excuses to meddle wheresover^([sic]) on the globe they smelled profit, but when less-profitable peoples begged for aid, poisoned by the superpowers’ fumes, and lies, and cruel investments, then the powers hid like⟳ children in the pillow-fort of their so-modern and so-rational directive not to interfere⟳.”

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