How to Use illegitimate in a Sentence

illegitimate

adjective

• They were fired from their jobs for illegitimate reasons.
• She thinks that my concerns are illegitimate.
• In the view of some lawyers, this statute could apply to almost any illegitimate action Trump took to change the outcome of the election.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• As the auction gets more buzz, Fisher has become wary, worried that some of the bids are illegitimate or were put in as jokes.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Kari Lake has claimed for weeks that her loss in the race for Arizona governor was illegitimate.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper and, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022
• And Chief Justice Roberts wonders why the current court is seen by many as an illegitimate farce.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
• Paul has flashed some highlights with swift knockouts in four of those wins, but many still view him as an illegitimate boxer.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• The Kapp Putsch, or coup, in 1920 tried but failed to overthrow the government in Berlin, which its supporters saw as illegitimate.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Trump worked hard in each of those instances to degrade and invalidate the process, to treat them as illegitimate in order to blunt the findings.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Vaemond made his case — a strong one, as so long as people believed and agreed that Rhaenyra and Laenor's children were illegitimate.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2022
• Because Charles’ children were all illegitimate, his younger brother, the Catholic James, was his sole heir.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2022
• What’s not protected is acting as if the election were therefore illegitimate, like to say that Joe Biden is not the President, so the laws don’t bind me.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
• There may well be sexist motives behind some of these demands, but that doesn't mean that each and every one of them is illegitimate.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 8 June 2022
• Earlier this year, Charles Vandervaart joined the cast as the adult version of William, Jamie's illegitimate son.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2022
• The boycott resulted in an extremely low turnout of 3.5%, leading many in the West to claim the elections were indeed illegitimate.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 2 June 2023
• Has led to the false belief that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and that Joe Biden’s election was illegitimate.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• Lee Jun-young’s character Kang In-ha is the illegitimate son of a conglomerate head.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Johnsen said that Allan was pulled over for driving with an illegitimate license plate.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The fear for many Haitians is any elections held under Henry's leadership will be seen as illegitimate.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Having already declared the princes illegitimate, Richard paved the way for his ascent to the throne as Edward IV’s next legitimate heir.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• For example, Cromwell may have had an illegitimate daughter in life, not in fiction.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022
• The four-part adaptation of Henry Fielding’s novel of the same name will be a new twist on the story following an illegitimate young man’s love for a beautiful heiress.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
• Paul was at the Capitol that day and condemned the deadly attack, which was fueled by lies that President Joe Biden's election was illegitimate.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 5 Oct. 2022
• At the time, the two rappers were feuding after Pusha T released a diss track accusing Drake of fathering an illegitimate child.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
• The scammer’s goal, Ruden said, is to launder the proceeds of illegitimate activities.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Kevin McCarthy will wave through any move to impeach the president, however illegitimate—and regardless of the chances of removal in the Senate.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Along the way, there’s illegitimate children, fake out deaths, and just about every soap opera cliché imaginable wrapped in gloriously stupid fun.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• In this installment, Lady Olivia agrees to marry a lord one of her sisters rejected—and tries to impress him by helping his illegitimate best friend find a bride.
  — Town & Country, 19 Feb. 2023
• The film will follow Alina’s life as Castro’s illegitimate daughter and a critic of his reign in Cuba before leaving the country and defecting to Spain in 1993.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• The illegitimate products come with pen labels, cartons, fact sheets and needles that are also counterfeit, the notice shows.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024