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Legitimately

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

    "Later, when we played King's Quest 2, I remember being legitimately terrified while inside Dracula's castle. Like, I had nightmares in 16 color EGA."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a lawfully recognized manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a manner acceptable to common custom wordnet

Etymology

From legitimate + -ly.

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