The word "illegitimacy" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a child who is born out of wedlock or without legal recognition of parenthood. For example: The high rate of illegitimacy in the city has caused an increase in the number of single-parent households.
Labour sources suggest the closer Cameron is to 280 seats, as opposed to 290, the harder it will be for him to mount a political argument around the illegitimacy of a minority Labour government.
Alternatively, despite yet another last-minute manouevre - voters may decide Labor's battle to the death over the legitimacy of rival leadership contenders proves the illegitimacy of the party's claim that it remains able to govern the nation.
Yet, by demonstrating their illegitimacy, it is also proof of their fragility.
ComCons believe that efforts by government agencies to address the "root causes" of crime, school failure and illegitimacy are doomed to failure.
This not only gives Fidel Castro a "rhetorical pretext" for his actions but also gives dissidents a veneer of illegitimacy.
Rather than ceding things like poverty or education to Democrats, as the elder Bush had, the president would point out that the best way to reduce poverty is to discourage illegitimacy and the best way to improve education is to challenge the public-school monopoly with vouchers.
Her father, who descended through illegitimacy from the king of Poland, had married her mother barely a month earlier, defying his mother's will.
It is startling (if true) to learn that the seemingly racist "Tintin in the Congo" is popular in Africa; and intriguing to speculate whether the glamorous illegitimacy of Hergé's own family history is echoed in the family crest of Tintin's friend, Captain Haddock.
Northern countries have removed the stigma from illegitimacy (France stopped using the term in official documents in 2005; 55% of births in Sweden are outside wedlock).
She adds that Condoleezza Rice epitomises the "over-accomplished black woman home alone with her bulging résumé."The good news is that the black illegitimacy rate may have peaked it has barely risen since 1990.
In most of Asia, marriage is widespread and illegitimacy almost unknown.
