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legitimately

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Google is one of the few companies that can legitimately show active work in most every technical field.

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Quick take

In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of legitimately gathered in one view.

adverb

In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for legitimately.

adverb

In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

See also: licitly, lawfully

Example sentences

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Google is one of the few companies that can legitimately show active work in most every technical field.

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Agreed, NY Times is one of the very few legitimately great news organizations left in the US.

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It was the only legitimately serious course that the camp offered, and it was not for beginners.

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There have certainly been companies that have decided to use Justin.tv legitimately without telling us first.

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Someone can legitimately have deep knowledge of, e.g., how to build a 3-tier service architecture without actually being able to code.

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For it to actually be unfair, there has to be a legitimately injured party.

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Overall, I'm thrilled with the procedure, and as I previously had terrible vision, it was legitimately life-changing.

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Bittorrent is now widely used legitimately for distributing software updates.

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If you dislike what GitHub has done, host your repo at one of the other free sites that provide this service, and stop insulting people in legitimately oppressive states by equating your churlish valley bigotry with legitimately repressed speech.

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The hardest bug I ever tracked to date resulted from a combination of me being a n00b at the time and legitimately being hard.

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> Someone can legitimately have deep knowledge of, e.g., how to build a 3-tier service architecture without actually being able to code.

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This is a good route to go if you want to be paid for something that is legitimately serious but which will not be honored through purely responsible disclosure (as a term, not a moral judgment) because the vendor is hostile towards security research.

Quote examples

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They tend to either reduce to "No, because the book says otherwise" or be legitimately inventive.

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But yes, the exposure and outrage and "never again" is legitimately progress...

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This is the Web Economy, of course; more preposterous things have happened than stupendous investments in something as legitimately "virus-like" as Mafia Wars or FarmVille.

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Is there anything legitimately interesting to the "Apple" and "Steve Jobs" parts of this story other than the usual clickbait?

Proper noun examples

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Legitimately thought I was in for a jump scare for a second.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use legitimately in a sentence?

Google is one of the few companies that can legitimately show active work in most every technical field.

What does legitimately mean?

In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

What part of speech is legitimately?

legitimately is commonly used as adverb.