illegitimate
IPA: ɪɫɪdʒˈɪtʌmɪt
noun
- A person born to unmarried parents.
verb
- (transitive) To make illegitimate.
adjective
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- (dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
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Examples of "illegitimate" in Sentences
- They treated Shays Rebellion as in illegitimate revolt to be suppressed.
- I do have to say I dislike the term illegitimate when talking about children.
- [O] n a visceral level, to watch him chortling as he calls Obama illegitimate is just gross and offensive.
- The question you should be asking liberals is "What functions of government do you define as illegitimate?"
- The only recent "conservative" decision I'm entirely comfortable calling illegitimate is Adarand (or Gratz -- basically, strict scrutiny for affirmative action).
- The progress made by educated women in getting women's voices a hearing means changing options for all women and their kids (example: the word illegitimate has left the building).
- As unpopular as this abomonation is (for the $500 billion tax hikes, $500 Medicare cuts and dubious constitutionality on the substance), just imagine the chaos that will reign if a large segment of the population views ObamaCare as illegitimate from a process standpoint.
- The reason that I don't find them illegitimate is probably that as a general matter, I think that political weakness on the part of a burdened group is a factor suggesting less deference, so judicial interventions on behalf of politically weak groups generally get counted as legitimate.
- All this will involve many a shock to prudery; to take only the instance of what we call illegitimate motherhood, our eyes askance must learn that there are other legitimacies and illegitimacies than those which depend upon the little laws of men, and that if our doctrine of the worth of parenthood be a right one it is our business in every such case to say, "Here also, then, in so far as it lies in our power, we must make motherhood as good and perfect as may be."
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