illegitimate
Example Sentences
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If ever there was justification for an asterisk next to a record, his illegitimate assault on a scoring record is it.
From Los Angeles Times
And in a 1778 painting of Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret, who was the illegitimate daughter of a duke, he poses her classically in costly black lace.
But the failure to do so doesn’t make the cause an illegitimate one.
"He seems to believe that any good-faith disagreement with his own interpretation of the law is, by definition, illegitimate," Schwinn told AFP.
From Barron's
Years of decay have left oil fields, pipelines and refineries in disrepair, with investors wary of sinking large sums and signing deals with a government led by Rodríguez that is widely viewed as illegitimate.
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