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 • Mar. 14, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The company says that it is “especially concerned about the use of A.I. to help individual humans or small groups gain unprecedented and illegitimate forms of concentrated power.”

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

"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 • Feb. 20, 2026

A bishop of Bath, under the imaginary Edward the First, was considered after due reflection to be an unsuitable man for the Archbishopric, because he had too many illegitimate children—not some, but too many.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White