illegitimacy
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The University of Washington appears to have enshrined an orthodoxy about the illegitimacy of its own existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
He also insisted that Iran's doctrine was "rooted in our belief in the prohibition and illegitimacy of nuclear weapons".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
"This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy," he wrote.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
What do you hope readers learn about illegitimacy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
“A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
You never objected to any of the illegitimacies that have preceded FRITZ;—why then should you begin now?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various