Example sentences for: illegitimate

How can you use “illegitimate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I am myself conventionally "pro-choice," but I would think it a dubious procedure to make that the criterion of when it was illegitimate to invoke the Holocaust, reserving the mantle of legitimacy for causes--like humanitarian intervention, or the promotion of brotherhood and tolerance--of which I approve.

  • A scandal rocked the Belgian monarchy when it was revealed Thursday that much-respected King Albert II has an illegitimate daughter working as an artist in London.

  • The WP says that although failing to get a simple majority has no constitutional relevance, such an outcome could become a "potent political weapon" with which President Clinton and his allies could depict the impeachment as an illegitimate abuse of power.

  • Whether charging that Thomas Jefferson took a slave as his mistress or that Grover Cleveland fathered an illegitimate child, opponents have long assailed the morals of presidential aspirants.

  • Or worse, some sort of illegitimate attempt by the paper to revise its history of coverage on the subject?


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