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Adjective(1) (2) contrary to or forbidden by law(3) of marriages and offspring(4) not recognized as lawful(5) not legal
Noun(1) (2) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

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(1) He writes that his first experience of the police came through his unruly boyhood and that he is the father of an illegitimate child, born while he was a military police officer in South Korea.(2) As indicated above, another of the major problems for illegitimate children was the feeling that they were never secure members of their families.(3) It's all lifestyle and marriages and illegitimate children and tears before bedtime.(4) There are no stipulations for issues like illegitimate children, or the now rampant cases of domestic violence.(5) Even if he is right as a matter of political theory, he will not be an effective lawyer if he treats the law as wholly illegitimate .(6) In any event, the exclusion of them from the balancing exercise is likewise illegitimate .(7) There was no such thing as an illegitimate child, a mother had simply to u2018nameu2019 the child and if it was a son he could inherit part of its father's property.(8) Denying one group their rightful possession of property, acquired according to these rules, was the illegitimate exercise of government powers and was unjust.(9) Between 1949 and 1956, approximately 2,700 so-called illegitimate children were born there.(10) Thousands of illegitimate children were denied adoption because the church could not countenance the thought that u2018the legal parent might be aliveu2019.(11) I have looked at it and I have seen a bigger rise in Ireland, where there is no gay marriage and illegitimate children.(12) We can challenge illegitimate corporate authority.(13) Under this exception, the bare desire to harm an unpopular group is an illegitimate basis for legislation.(14) China is ruled by an illegitimate communist oligarchy which wants to develop the country commercially while maintaining political control.(15) Even a political leader herself can with good reason believe that her political power is illegitimate , and that exercising this power is unjustified.(16) It will be unusual for a bank itself to have exercised undue influence, acted unconscionably, or exerted illegitimate pressure.
Related Words
(1) illegitimate child
(2) illegitimate son
Synonyms
Adjective
1. illegal
2. unlawful
3. illicit
4. criminal
5. felonious
6. unlicensed
7. unauthorized
8. unsanctioned
12. forbidden
14. fraudulent
15. corrupt
16. dishonest
17. malfeasant
18. crooked
19. shady


Noun
20. illegitimate child
21. whoreson
23. by-blow
24. bastard


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