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The use of legal system to overwhelm an opponent, such as to stop or destroy them.
All's fair in love and war, but in lawfare, the person with the most money or best legal team, can make justice seem unfair.
Lawfare by mlhiss December 8, 2016
Word of the Day on July 2, 2024
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This word is often used by common criminals to describe the application of the law against them.
Man! The lawfare was insane, I was getting busted every where I went.
Lawfare by Therry October 15, 2013
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An incendiary made-up term that creates baseless slander through inuendo.
His Rape, Insurrection and 34 Felony Convictions were all just political Lawfare.
Lawfare by Truth Crusader February 7, 2025
To subject someone to strategic or excessive legal action, often as a means of intimidation or harassment.
Her opponent used LAWFARE to have her arrested, because they wanted to silence her political voice, and her political influence.
LAWFARE by 4EVA R October 3, 2025
Lawfare is the deliberate subjection of an entity to excessive and unnecessary legal action in order to silence them and destroy what they stand for.
A current example would be the lawfare against Valve, from several parties like the State of New York and the government of the United Kingdom. This is likely happening because Valve is one of the few remaining privately owned technology corporations, and as a result have not gotten on board with ID verification on their platform, Steam. This makes the oligarchs and governments very angry, seeing the company as an obstruction of their goal of mass surveillance and data harvesting, and as a result, they seek to destroy them through lawfare or force Valve to comply with the bullshit.

lawarence 

Lawarence...more than likely an old person who likes gardens. Who has two daughters..
Person 1: "..Hey I got these Veggies."
Lawarence: "..Ok..what do you want me to do?"
Person 1: "..Pick them.."
Lawarence: "..Your young..you do it!"
lawarence by FOR HE SHALL LIVE ON November 25, 2016
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
Word of the Day on August 31, 2026
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
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