Legitimately is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEGITIMATELY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
ADVERB:
• LEGITIMATE, lawful, born in wedlock
• in a way that conforms to the law or to rules
• in a way that can be defended with logic or justification; fairly
• truly; genuinely
• in a manner acceptable to common custom
• in a lawfully recognized manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lawfully begotten; born in wedlock; having full filial rights and obligations by birth

Words related to LEGITIMATELY

legitimate13

Words that contain LEGITIMATELY

illegitimately20

How to use LEGITIMATELY in a sentence

• That gold is, therefore, legitimately your property, as this house in which we are now.
• The British know our helplessness and Sir Thomas Holland cracks jokes quite legitimately at the expense of non-co-operationists.
• It can not legitimately resort to force without the direct authority of Congress, except in resisting and repelling hostile attacks.
• Had I been legitimately a working-man in London, whatever the character of my work, I had a right to that privilege.
• All this, and more, he had learned legitimately and without cost to his commercial honor.
• Since their work stands rooted in romanticism it may legitimately heighten the effects and lights of everyday life.
• Issued legitimately from the past, he is mindful of his high descent.
• It was simply a question of preserving his credit by means which were legitimately at his disposal.
• The new pastor, until this public introduction, could not be legitimately assumed for known to the parishioners.
• To keep out of the gutter is for us here no part of consciousness at all, yet for many of our brethren it is the most legitimately engrossing of ideals.
• The flowers are legitimately employed in decorating the salad-bowl, because they are not only ornamental but strictly edible.
• It has dislodged a sentence that must have legitimately belonged to the text, restored in the foregoing translation by conjecture.
• Criticism of this statement legitimately made on the side of Atheism as being gratuitous.
• The deficiency thus created operated legitimately and advantageously in giving employment to a greatly increased number of female teachers.
• Such a monstrous assassination of the souls of the human race with the jaw bone of an ass may be legitimately avoided in either of two ways.
• It is rather a result of being already inside, and it legitimately serves as an outlet thence.
• The bachelor Fulgencio de Ribera took the floor, and said in few words that the judge-conservator was not legitimately appointed, for there were no manifest injuries in the case.
• He was apprenticed to a chair-maker, to learn the trade, but never engaged legitimately in it after he became his own master.
• When all is said, however, there was singularly little beyond what we made for ourselves which could legitimately be called amusements.
• Obviously such material can not legitimately be used to prove that the use of alcohol by parents injures the heredity of their children.
• Or they might have started legitimately from outside New York, and be going toward the city now.
• And now that it might be legitimately indulged, I was not sorry to see such strong evidences of its existence.
• Possibly this remorse goaded him the more because he had received his share of the property legitimately acquired.
• So almost limitless are the possibilities of service in this age that I am not willing to fix a maximum to the sum a man can honestly and legitimately earn.
• It is well Spain should retain the Canaries and the Balearic group, for they are as Spanish as any peninsular province, and legitimately belong therefore to the kingdom.
• But the writer remarks that the tickets may have been stolen by, or for, people who could not obtain them legitimately.
• You take from them 653 votes, which do not legitimately belong to them, and you mix them up with the surplus votes of the remaining eight candidates.
• Certainly no reformer could ever more legitimately make an emotional appeal to the higher sensibility of the public.
• In the north too Nepal, Kashmir, Khotan and many other districts might at one time or another be legitimately described as conquered or tributary countries.
• The State however, refuses to recognise more than one wife and many of the soldiers are legitimately married by the officials qualified to perform that office.
• This contains first an important lesson as to what may be legitimately the subject of our prayers.

Similar words containing LEGITIMATE without suffix ly

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