What's the difference between iffy and legitimacy?

Iffy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Before you know it you can have a few iffy results.
  • (2) Iffy grooming habits are the least of Wolfowitz's worries as he takes on the presidency of the World Bank.
  • (3) If Sampson had a case for arguing that Rafferty’s inital push had been made marginally outside the area, he could have had no complaints when England – due £35,000 per woman bonuses had they lifted the trophy – won a distinctly iffy penalty of their own.
  • (4) The keeper has looked iffy today but letting that in would have made him absolutely whiffy.
  • (5) Arsenal’s players performed a cancan on the pitch at Highbury as fans chanted: “We are unbeatable.” After an iffy first half, they had won 2-1 to complete a full season without defeat in the league.
  • (6) It’s looking certainly more iffy than it did even just a few days ago.
  • (7) It's looking like an iffy pot, or a two cushion escape.
  • (8) Because now Nando's has been caught ploughing money into all manner of legal but morally iffy offshore tax havens, and the fragile castle of ideology that I have painstakingly constructed for myself has crumpled.
  • (9) When they mentioned figures, they were very iffy about whether they were positive or negative.
  • (10) 11.12pm BST Tweets Rory Murphy (@bogotabandit2) so @HunterFelt prediction already looking a bit iffy.
  • (11) Their only post-promotion victory came at Sunderland in August but, after a few slightly iffy performances, Ramírez was back to his elegant, subtly incisive, intelligent best during last Saturday’s encouraging 0-0 draw at Arsenal .
  • (12) Berlind's theory of ovum transmigration in the etiology of tubal pregnancy is revived and brought into line with Iffy's delayed ovulation-reflux hypothesis.
  • (13) In other words: Tonight is your chance to go crazy conspiracy theorists, feel free to examine the game tape surrounding every iffy call as if it were the Zapruder film.
  • (14) It might be one of the oldest methods of preserving fruit, but make sure you put them in an airtight container, and if you've had them for a while, now's the time to use them up – I'm a bit iffy about keeping any ingredient for longer than six months.
  • (15) Jarvis isn't interested in who celebrities are shagging: "People might be a bit iffy, but that's between them and their conscience.
  • (16) He’s the one that’s been very iffy and about his role and what he would like to do about immigration.” Reckless made the comments when he was challenged to spell out what would happen to a Polish plumber if Ukip had its way on Britain leaving the EU.
  • (17) Indeed, according to Jim Ward's account, only an iffy penalty decision kept Rams – Isthmian League Cup winners that season – out of the final against Wimbledon.
  • (18) It was a bit iffy when Garvey got to the bullying (he said "strong-willed" and "tough" too many times, like he'd spent a weekend with Miliband, brainstorming positive terms for "bastard").
  • (19) Everyone: Isn't it a bit iffy hanging around with her again?
  • (20) Asked about calls for an election pact, he said: “The internal wrangling of the Conservative party is no longer my problem … There is something a little bit iffy about the idea of pacts, because it suggests politicians fixing things for their convenience.

Legitimacy


Definition:

  • (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (2) Third, the appropriation of these symbolic forms of society, self, and the emotions by the current Iranian Islamic state and the role of the state in defining the meaning and legitimacy of emotions and their expression is analyzed.
  • (3) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
  • (4) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
  • (5) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (6) "In contrast, Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the Libyan people and the international community."
  • (7) Every action they take serves only to rearm us and give us greater legitimacy for what we’re doing,” he said.
  • (8) Hamas vehemently denies the legitimacy of Israel but its leaders have stated repeatedly that if Fatah negotiates with Israel a two-state peace deal based on the 1967 borders, and if this outcome is approved in a national referendum, it would respect it as the choice of the Palestinian people.
  • (9) Hamas feels that the conflict brought it significant international legitimacy, with a stream of regional political figures heading to Gaza to show solidarity with Palestinians under bombardment.
  • (10) Scalise did acknowledge that speaking to the group was a “mistake I regret”, but there has been no explicit apology for or acknowledgement from either of the three men that his presence may have done more lasting damage by conferring legitimacy on David Duke’s group, even just among the people in attendance.
  • (11) I hereby make a special appeal to Ecowas, AU [African Union] and the UN, particularly the security council, to support the government and people of the Gambia in enforcing their will, restore their sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy,” he said.
  • (12) The former first lady’s relationship with Williams is also an important because prosecutors have said Williams was not so much a personal friend but a businessman who showered the McDonnells with cash and gifts because he wanted their help in establishing legitimacy for his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc.
  • (13) Lesser writers on Mexico, including myself, have insisted that the line between legitimacy and criminality, upon which Mexico’s international relations are based, is a fantasy, that the line between legality and illegality is a lie, not only within Mexico, but internationally, with regard to the laundering of the profits of crime.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour ‘ready to offer strong and stable leadership’ Corbyn tells MPs “Theresa May has no mandate and no legitimacy for policies that do not have the support of the majority of the British people.” Corbyn also told MPs he wanted to learn lessons why they lost in some areas, and said he would be meeting candidates who lost their seats.
  • (15) An election that had been designed to bolster the legitimacy of the Afghan government has had precisely the opposite effect, producing a president elected only through widespread and systematic fraud.
  • (16) China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party.
  • (17) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
  • (18) Legitimacy of the symbiont transfer theory removes the constraint of interpreting presence of cellulolytic protozoa as a synapomorphy between Cryptocercidae and Isoptera, with potential impact on objective resolution of dictyopteran phylogeny.
  • (19) It is also, for the profession as a whole, one of the two ultimate claims to continuing legitimacy and respect, the other being technical competence.
  • (20) The legitimacy of such a diagnosis is seldom challenged.