illegitimacy

Examples

• All

• This video thing reeks of illegitimacy.

  A Feast of Man (2016)

• Among American public health specialists, it is commonly held that the association between illegitimacy and higher rates of infant mortality is spurious.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the end, it was never even the illegitimacy of the claims that did them in.

  Blog text (27)

• In practice, though of course not in principle, illegitimacy and crime are even less defensible among the poor.

  Academic text (1991)

• Today's high rate of illegitimacy has nothing to do with slavery.

  Blog text (29)

• Indeed, illegitimacy has played a role in retarding improved prenatal care.

  Academic text (1991)

• No argument, just random name-calling that illustrates the illegitimacy of the points Scott, I, and other comments make above.

  Blog text (23)

• Yeltsin weakened the chain of command running to Minister of Defense Yazov by demonstrating Yazov's illegitimacy.

  Academic text (1992)

• In invoking this analogy, socialists joined a widening consensus on the illegitimacy of slavery and made strategic use of the growing opprobrium against the institution.

  Academic text (2018)

• The increasing rate of illegitimacy in the society raised concerns about legal rights for children.

Synonyms

I

illegality

vsillegitimacy

14 6.7

A state of being against the law

is about not being authorized by law rather than only violating statutes

U

unlawfulness

vsillegitimacy

• Formal

1 6.8

Not following the law

focuses on absence of legal authorization, not only failure to conform

I

illicitness

vsillegitimacy

7.9

A state of being illegal or forbidden by law

is about lack of legal authorization rather than simply being banned

Antonyms

L

legitimacy

54 4.6

A state in which something is allowed by law or official rules

How Legitimate

legitimacy

54 4.6

illegitimacy

• Formal

4 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology