illegitimately
- r in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom
He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold - r of biological parents not married to each other
this child was born illegitimately
- We're too smart, for example, to be fooled by telephone calls suggesting that John McCain illegitimately fathered a black child; too smart to be fooled by emails claiming Barack .
- Last year he defaulted on some $3 billion of Ecuador's $10 billion foreign debt, saying the loans had been contracted "immorally and illegitimately" a generation ago when the .
- In several towns, courts even intervened to stop opponents illegitimately adopting Lula's image or the Workers' Party's distinctive red flag, while Lula himself has stayed away .