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What is the adjective for illegitimate?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb illegitimatize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

illegitimate
  1. Illegal; against the law.
  2. Born to unmarried parents.
  3. Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
  4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
  5. (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It forbids killing that is illegitimate according to the law.”
      “Rumors circulated among historians that Samuel de Champlain was the illegitimate son of a very high-born person in France.”
      “It is not illegitimate to ask why such a thing even exists.”
illegit
  1. (informal) illegitimate
illegitimatized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of illegitimatize
illegitimatizing
  1. present participle of illegitimatize
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