LEGITIMACY Antonyms

• the status of being born to parents who were not married

• unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)

• not genuine; imitating something superior

• a copy that is represented as the original

• make a copy of with the intent to deceive

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• formed or conceived by the imagination

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• make a copy of with the intent to deceive

• tamper, with the purpose of deception

• speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• the state of being false or untrue

• a false statement

• reproduced fraudulently

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses

• a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• ostensibly valid, but not actually valid

• plausible but false

• born out of wedlock

• false or fake; not what it appears to be

• lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria

• not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary

• contrived by art rather than nature

• lacking material form or substance; unreal