legitimately

Example Sentences

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It’s taboo because we make it so, which means that the legitimately taboo looks all the more repulsive by comparison.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, consumer advocates say borrowers are struggling to get good information from servicers — the companies that are legitimately handling their loans.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Andrew Clements, longtime music critic for the Guardian, named Mr. Reich as one of “a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Keane's appeal hearing noted that you cannot legitimately challenge for the ball by pulling someone's hair.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson