Synonym: admissible, authorized, just, lawful, legal, rightful, sound, valid. Antonym: illegitimate. Similar words: ultimate, intimate, estimate, estimated, ultimately, legit, climate, approximately. Meaning: [lɪ'dʒɪtɪmət] v. 1. make legal 2. show or affirm to be just and legitimate 3. make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone). adj. 1. of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful 2. based on known statements or events or conditions 3. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles 4. authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law.
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31. I have a duty to support just governments in foreign countries, even though they have no legitimate power over me.
32. Culture will specify the relations that exist within the organisation and define what is to count as legitimate or illegitimate behaviour.
33. Anything which brings about this erasure of engrams in place and their refiling as experience is useful and legitimate whatever it includes.
34. Given women's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men's, a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination.
35. Nevertheless, although generalizations arrived at by legitimate inductions can not be guaranteed to be perfectly true, they are probably true.
36. Together the two theses present a comprehensive view of the nature and role of legitimate authority.
37. How are individuals to know which ones are legitimate and which ones are shams making fake claims?
38. This is not about depriving people accused of crimes of their legitimate rights, including the presumption of innocence.
39. A year after their marriage she produced his only legitimate child, a daughter whom they christened Jennifer.
40. Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
41. However, we should be wary lest use of such an emotive and pejorative term leads to premature dismissal of legitimate arguments.
42. I think that the case is based upon what nowadays would be described as a legitimate expectation of being heard.
43. The misconception, however, is that once a legitimate grievance has been dealt with, the violence will end.
43. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
44. He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
45. Such an approach appears to give schools and judges wide discretion to determine what is reasonable and what are legitimate educational concerns.
46. We aim to confront the legitimate fears and aspirations of both communities.
47. Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate, their crimes political.
48. Every political system defines its boundaries of legitimate action differently.
49. Prussia, like Britain, had a relatively long period of effective, legitimate government before the introduction of democratic institutions.
50. Where the offence occurs within a legitimate framework, a principle of simple reciprocity frequently applies.
51. Their function is to supply realism or local colour, and for these purposes their use is perfectly legitimate.
52. Congress orders investigations, and suddenly the rest of the mainstream media begin covering them as legitimate stories.
53. Kerry called the labor laws "a legitimate collective effort to protect our children" and said he supported them.
54. In this context of an advanced division of labour, interests theories specify the legitimate range of economic interdependence.
55. And so at last, though not happily nor of one mind, Lachlan was named as the legitimate heir of Duart.
56. It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ.
57. It also allows people access to loans without resorting to the extortionate rates charged by some legitimate credit companies.
58. What indeed are the repercussions of establishing the two-parent, heterosexual couple as the only legitimate model of parenthood?
59. Anyone who has a legitimate grievance against the company can take it to the arbitration committee.
60. Disputes over legitimate rulers are a second underlying problem with claims that territorial integrity has been violated.
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