Given its primary sense of "having two poles or charges," it can legitimately be used to mean "having two opposite or contradictory ideas or natures," as the American Heritage Dictionary says.
Hannibal is a sprawling mess of a masterpiece that defies classification – it could legitimately be labelled horror, guignol, gothic, even romance.
It might legitimately be asked whether Golijov is still writing classical music or whether, as one Harvard professor complained, he is merely transcribing sounds that can be heard in any marketplace in Mexico.
Although Charles Shaw wine falls under the generic California appellation, the broadest possible designation, it can legitimately be labelled "Cellared & Bottled by Charles Shaw Winery, Napa, CA," a practice that strikes many in Napa as unsavory.
It can legitimately be denied that speakers have the relevant sort of access to their commitments.
In view of our particular design and more precisely because we give our applicants fictitious last workplaces and associations, it may legitimately be asked if our applications have not been perceived as fictitious by recruiters.
The theory is to hold of minds in general, to be inclusive of other hunan beings in particular, so it cannot legitimately be used to justify the claim that those other minds do, in fact, exist.
Such differences arguably already pervaded Cicero's usage of probabilis and verisimilis, although the matter is contentious.[8] A proposition was regarded as credibilis or opinabilis if it could legitimately be accepted as one's opinion.
Alternately, it could legitimately be a recently taken photo which just happens to be extremely fuzzy.
While Churches of Christ do not describe baptism as a "sacrament", their view of it can legitimately be described as "sacramental".
Marriage is recognized as a fundamental right in this country and, as such, it cannot legitimately be withheld from same-sex couples.
