Example sentences for: illegitimacy

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

  • To be sure, illegitimacy is not a perfect proxy for indiscriminate promiscuity--although other indicators (venereal-disease incidence, divorce rates, etc.) track well with it.

  • The metaphor undermines the Losing Ground Murray, the guy who writes that "[u]ntil the government began masking the social costs created by large numbers of fatherless children, civilized communities everywhere stigmatized illegitimacy."

  • But his relajando behavior, the social situations and entanglements he got into, were also subversively configured to emphasize the extreme illegitimacy of the social structure.

  • Dimly aware of this problem, Murray brings in a more sweeping illegitimacy thesis--government is unjustified--to trump all the others.

  • The section didn't mention marriage, illegitimacy, or any of the other conventional moral topics that might embarrass Clinton.


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