lawsome

comparative more lawsome · superlative most lawsome

1. nonstandardrareCharacterised or marked by lawfulness; lawful

   The lawsome owner of that expensive palomino is a real college boy with a generous allowance from a daddy in the cattle trade.

   2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270

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   But Lon Camp was gifted with a more legal turn of mind than the others and he said, “Now holt on a mite . Ifn Dad an' Hughie really have gone an' claim-staked this here fountain, then I reckon they got a lawsome right to her. […]”

   2017, Robert Edmond Alter, Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers, page 74