illegitimate
Example Sentences
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Manchester United record scorer Wayne Rooney helped prove the fraudster's guilt - he examined a shirt supposedly signed by him which was purchased by Trading Standards, and confirmed it was illegitimate.
From BBC
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
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.
But the failure to do so doesn’t make the cause an illegitimate one.
"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
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