legitimate

This isn’t a case against cremation, which the Catholic Church recognizes as legitimate and reverent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

One will be legitimate, and the other will be illegitimate.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

The double standard is why “You Can See Everything” having legitimate chances at multiple top awards next year is so exciting.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

He soon ascended from nonfactor to legitimate contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

At first her questions were legitimate enough: Arithmetic, spelling, languages, geography, and the sort of purposeful confusion—about ringing numbers and underlining words—in which some psychologists place particular store.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

“But someone like Carlson is also important because he legitimates those ideas, making them seem less radical when viewers see them.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2022

“Selling them solidifies and legitimates the selling of our trauma,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

“When ‘winning’ becomes everything, and winning means dehumanizing the other side for short‐term gain, it legitimates increasingly extreme behavior on both sides,” Mr. Drutman said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020

One consequence is that truth, evidence and science fall prey to the language of mystification, which legitimates a tsunami of ignorance and the further collapse of morality and civic courage.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

"Well then," said I, "necessity legitimates my advice; for it is the only way to save our lives."

From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

Moreover, this attack on the welfare state and common good is increasingly legitimated and normalized through tyrannical forms of education in a variety of sites, especially in the broader cultural sphere.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017

The graffiti is first; Klara’s more culturally legitimated art comes after.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2015

No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

On the other hand was the Duke du Maine, an acknowledged son of the king—the legitimated son of Madame de Montespan.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Mr. Kirsch identifies two recent changes that reflect a legitimating shift in attitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"After legitimating his position in broader Israeli circles, he will proceed to the realms that not all agree on - namely the West Bank," Asa-El said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022

We are not legitimating their views by asking them questions, nor by publishing their answers; we are doing the work of reporting.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022

But legitimating the National Prayer Breakfast was a signature achievement.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2020

Cæsar himself became cardinal, September 20, 1493, the stain of his birth having been removed by the Cardinals Pallavicini and Orsini, who had been charged with legitimating him.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius