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A word describing a {{tag|noun}}. Adjectives are generally eschewed in legal drafting, but not quite as assiduously as are {{tag|adverb}}s, which are are viewed with abject horror, having only literary, but not forensic, merit. {{tag|Adjective}}s, being more of a necessary evil, engender only distaste.

Sometimes {{tag|adjective}}s can be quite handy, even to a curmudgeon, and in rare cases carry all the semantic content of an adjectival phrase. If you take the adjectives out of “a [[commercially reasonable manner]]” you are not left with much at all: An entreaty that parties “shall act in a manner at all times” would irk even the most punctilious [[mediocre lawyer|attorney]].