illegitimate

Modifying Another Word

• entirely: But telecoms analyst John Delaney of Ovum said T-Mobile's decision was " not entirely illegitimate " .
• not: The notice exercising the power of sale was not illegitimate or improper.
• therefore: It becomes violence, and therefore illegitimate, only in the eye of the beholder.
• morally: Of course, the anarchist must still explain why hierarchies emerge and are so durable if they are so clearly morally illegitimate.
• completely: They are trying to portray it as a completely illegitimate result and Oona King was even on the Today program this morning.
• politically: Sir Jeremy has called the war " politically illegitimate " and his book is being blocked.

Infinitive complement

• ask: It's illegitimate to ask when time began if the only times are within time.

Modifies a noun

• recombination: Molecular analysis of DNA junctions produced by illegitimate recombination in human cells.
• offspring: I have often heard stories of the illegitimate offspring of top Nazis.
• son: Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a local lawyer in the small town of Vinci in the Tuscan region.
• daughter: Eliza was the illegitimate daughter of Jane, baptized on 7 February 1819.
• birth: The number of illegitimate births during 1846 was 111.
• child: He has an illegitimate child by the second wife who lives in Germany.

Used with adjective complement

• declare: Their son King Edward V is therefore declared illegitimate.
• bear: John was born illegitimate at Cottingham as John SWAN, he moved to Elizabeth | Her parents were James and Jain.
• consider: The child is considered illegitimate in terms of intestacy.
• become: Basic democratic rights are becoming incompatible with the neoliberal agenda, which thereby becomes even more illegitimate.
• seem: Beyond very serious abnormalities it seems illegitimate to be able to choose certain traits.
• denounce: Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness.

Preposition: in

• term: The child is considered illegitimate in terms of intestacy.