legitimately [
li'dʒitimitli]
ad. 正当地, 合理地
legitimately[ adv ]- in a manner acceptable to common custom
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you cannot do this legitimately!
- in a lawfully recognized manner
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let's get married so our child can be born legitimately
Legitimately \Le*git"i*mate*ly\ (-m[asl]t*l[y^]), adv.
In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
- "That revenue figure in total is something that we can accept. Unfortunately, in Bush's budget, it is not legitimately obtained," Sasser said.
- Disobedience of judicial orders undermines the ability of the nation's courts to administer justice, and is properly and legitimately punishable by fines and imprisonment.
- It's something I think he is legitimately entitled to participate in," Fuller said.
- In many cases, they said, aircraft were being grounded only until the owners could prove were purchased legitimately and were used only for legal activities.
- A "when-issued" period is legitimately needed in order for the market to absorb the huge amount of new Treasury debt, and anyone suspecting a "squeeze" will likely choose not to participate in the auction.
- This was because the burden of the rates fell unevenly and many people legitimately escaped paying them but benefitted from garbage collection, street maintenance and other local authority services.
- Bias can more legitimately be charged to the two disgruntled employees who made the false accusations.
- The court said it approved Newmont's amending a standstill accord with Gold Fields to facilitate the sweep because Newmont legitimately feared a takeover attempt by Gold Fields, as well as by Ivanhoe.
- Justice Byron R. White, in his opinion for the court, said the under-representation on the board for the city's largest boroughs is severe, rejecting arguments by city officials that the make-up legitimately balances regional interests.
- The works of many of these artists, however, with their disease-green and hatchet-cut faces, their bent skeletal limbs and insistent ugliness one may still legitimately find more repulsive than attractive.
- First, Judge Kennedy testified that "the concept of liberty in the due process clause (of the 14th Amendment) is . . . quite sufficient . . . to protect the values of privacy that Americans legitimately think are part of their constitutional heritage."
- The papers served on the administrators allege it was improper and a breach of fiduciary duty. Coopers yesterday said the payment had been legitimately carried out under Turkish law.
- And the overwhelming majority are legitimately owned for legitimate pruposes," Bush said in his speech.
- Such accounting, used legitimately by many firms, permitted it to record earnings based on its current costs, the estimated costs to complete a project and whether it believed the entire contract price would be received by the company.
- "I think he is legitimately scared.
- The sale of state-owned properties to the market is the only way in which "the appointment of directors of firms belonging to the public sector can be legitimately removed from political power."
- Our lawsuits legitimately seek to recover for American taxpayers losses suffered by more than 40 failed S&Ls from junk-bond purchases tied to illegal activities by Mr. Milken and his associates.
- Hirshman said the relationship between Garcia and Wedtech started out legitimately, with the congressman using his influence to help Wedtech secure government contracts.
- Accusing the U.S. of an "arrogance of power," he said: "Many people everywhere are legitimately wondering why, by virtue of what right, should the whole world be held hostage to the SDI."
- The Hermansons' defense rests on a 1975 Florida law that protects parents who withhold medical treatment from their sick children if the parents are "legitimately practicing" their religious beliefs.
- KARLSRUHE can legitimately claim to be Germany's dream city. According to legend, the town came into being after the Margrave Karl-Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach fell asleep under a tree after a day's hunting.
- Graanoogst, No. 2 in the five-member military command headed by Bouterse, said Many nations have condemned the military action and demanded that the legitimately elected government be reinstated.
- Aftenposten of Oslo was able to write, for the first time quite legitimately, about 'Norway and the Middle East problem.'
- Roman Catholic instruction could legitimately include the observation that those who resort to condoms risk eternal damnation.
- There were also suggestions that Forte had been legitimately buying its own stock over the last couple of days, although Forte was later said to have denied this.
- Even tapes that are legitimately produced "can come back to haunt you," says Robert Frye, a defense lawyer at Shannon Gracey, in Fort Worth.
- The Iran-arms/contra affair raises the issue of whether Congress can legitimately pass laws to constrain the president from defending the nation.