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"Legitimate" in a Sentence (20 examples)
We consider it the citizens' legitimate right to have public libraries.
The Mafia uses legitimate business operations as a front.
Which prince is the legitimate heir to the throne?
We consider public libraries a legitimate citizen's right.
The Cockney mode of speech, with its unpleasant twang, is a modern corruption without legitimate credentials, and is unworthy of being the speech of any person in the capital city of the Empire.
I won't divorce you unless you give me a legitimate reason.
It's a legitimate worry.
Legitimate software applications from leading vendors are carrying an additional unwanted load. Together with their application, some of them change various browser settings as if your browser is theirs. Did you know that AVG, ICQ, Jookz, Babylon, ZoneAlarm, Incredimail just to name a few, tweak your homepage, default search and other settings?
That was legitimate.
All legitimate claims will be settled.
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Rodwell was sent off by referee Martin Atkinson - who has shown 15 red cards since the start of last season - after 23 minutes for what appeared to be a legitimate challenge on Suarez.
According to the tweet, the encounter began with "a traffic stop for unlawful speed." If so, then the initial stop was legitimate, but in and of itself that wouldn't be probable cause to search the car. It does give an officer the right to look inside, and if contraband is in plain view, that would be probable cause. Here we don't know whether the bag full of drugs marked "BAG FULL OF DRUGS" was laying out in plain view, but it seems entirely possible.
legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
The truth is, when we fail to protect legitimate rights of others and continue to expand the net of lies and defamation, every one would become victims one day including ourselves.
Besides his four legitimate wives, the caliph had dozens of concubines.
But should a “holy alliance of legitimates” extinguish it, it will be but for a season.
This extraordinarily mixed family of legitimates and illegitimates seems to have maintained a certain kind of harmony.
His overweening pride received another shock through his new friends the legitimates.
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