Definition of Illegitimate

Illegitimate

Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.

Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.

To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

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Illegitimate Quotations

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Rick Warren

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.
Kevin McDonald

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
Michael Badnarik

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
Saddam Hussein

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Matthew Shipp

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Clement Attlee

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Illegitimate Translations

illegitimate in Norwegian is ulovlig

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