legitimately

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It’s bad for everybody, except for the fraudster that’s running some kind of scam and sucking money out of streaming that legitimately should be going to real artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

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

Second, by treating overtime pay differently than other dollars earned, the law encourages workers to manipulate their hours worked — both legitimately and illegitimately.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 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

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