(a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
(a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
(a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
(a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.
(v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aeromonas caviae is a later and illegitimate synonym of Aeromonas punctata.
(2) Statutes in all countries in the region provide that a man must support his legitimate and illegitimate children; there are, however, weaknesses in the laws on the books.
(3) Transcripts including V-D beta 1-J beta 2-C2 sequences were found with a high frequency (greater than 10%), suggesting that "illegitimate" joinings may constitute a cis-complementing rearrangement mechanism capable of substantially increasing the TcR beta chain combinatorial diversity.
(4) Before she met my father, my mother was a single mum with an illegitimate child.
(5) "We have seen the illegitimate and indiscriminate use of teargas," Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch in Cairo, said, of Egypt's most recent street protests, as well as the original revolution in February.
(6) This suggests the existence of a novel mechanism of illegitimate recombination.
(7) 1991 is illegitimate due to the existence of a fungal genus Serpula Pers.
(8) Karen Spring, of the NGO Rights Action , said: "Honduras has been a dream for multinational corporations since the coup as the illegitimate government hammered through laws to favour international investors in tourism, mining, dams and model cities, while communities trying to protect their land have been criminalised and militarised."
(9) "Illegitimate" mating of yeasts (alpha x alpha), either spontaneous or induced by uv light or ethyl methanesulfanate, in a selective system for "cytoduction" revealed that about 95% of cytoductants expressed their original (alpha) mating type.
(10) Blacks appear to display less anxiety than whites over illegitimate births.
(11) Having survived a situation in which she'd factored a "50% chance to come out alive", Zuabi said she is now facing a different threat, "of racist, illegitimate ideas that have turned violent".
(12) Illegitimate recombination between repeated sequences containing lambda 2 and lambda 3 may be responsible for variable amplification of the lambda genes.
(13) These results prompt a translocation model with illegitimate pairing of a staggered double-stranded DNA break at 18q21 and an immunoglobulin endonuclease-mediated break at 14q32 and with N-segment addition, repair, and ligation to generate der(14) and der(18) chromosomes.
(14) Use of the polymerase chain reaction indicates that each of the illegitimate products carried a different deletion, but that all deletions mapped within a rather well defined portion of the precursor replicon.
(15) It was concluded that (i) snakebites were rare, since only 39 cases were recorded, none of which ended fatally; (ii) 86% of patients were men (mean age was 24 years); (iii) 80% of bites were on the hand and arm; (iv) 28% of patients had had previous snakebites; and (v) 60% of bites were 'illegitimate', i.e.
(16) The crosses where the normal strains carrying Tn10 near the terminus are donors and the inversion strain is a recipient, yielded unusual Tetr His- recombinants, which arose from illegitimate recombination leading to the replacement of a chromosomal his+ region with a transducing fragment carrying proC.
(17) Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
(18) These results showed that abnormal excision is a type of illegitimate recombination.
(19) The television and movie community is working every day to develop new and innovative ways to watch content online, and as the internet’s gatekeepers, search engines share a responsibility to play a constructive role in not directing audiences to illegitimate content.” But Michael Beckerman, president and chief executive of the Internet Association, hit back at the MPAA, saying it was "blaming the internet and technology for its problems".
(20) This is probably due to the fact that the illegitimate rate for whites dropped sharply in the 1960-1965 period, then rose sharply.
Lovechild
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He has just come back from Switzerland, where he attended the delivery [of the rumoured lovechild].” Asked about the Viennese osteopath, Peskov retorted: “Yes, the osteopath was with the generals.” Joking aside, the media speculation and online hysteria during the interlude was a reminder of just how much in Russian political life depends on the wellbeing of the man at the top, and just how closely guarded details of his private life are.
(2) Yet another placed him in Switzerland for the birth of a secret lovechild.
(3) The project started out by trying to ape its neighbours: the first concept looked like the lovechild of the swirling Pinnacle and the tilting Cheesegrater.
(4) It is the kind of ambitious hybrid offspring that might be produced if an academy school had a lovechild with the Barbican.