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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
delegitimize .
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Examples
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Fox News wasn't "delegitimized" by any of those Democrats picking a fight - it was sustained by it.
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I don't care if I would have "delegitimized" his presidency, all I care about is if he is upholding the Constitution, which he didn't and neither is Obama.
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This trend toward greater tolerance is least marked though still statistically significant in the case of speeches, teachers, and books that argue that “blacks are genetically inferior,” but since racism itself has become so delegitimized over these decades, increasing tolerance toward those who express it is even more striking.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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A call for civility in a world where each party now feels the deep wound of having had its successful candidates delegitimized is likely to be as successful as ordering a Manischewitz spritzer in a Beirut bar.
Harry Shearer: Who's Illegitimate? The Presidents. Who Says? Harry Shearer 2011
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What indeed is the prospect, Professor Troy, when you and others, appearing before a trumped-up "inquiry" into alleged "new anti-Semitism," insist on demonizing and delegitimizing the critics of Israel while simultaneously demanding that Israel be neither demonized nor delegitimized?
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Were this not enough, the site of the future Islamic Center was in a different set of incidents set on fire and vandalized, protested and delegitimized in the community.
Joshua Stanton: Islamophobia: Increasingly Ordinary And Therefore Most Terrible Joshua Stanton 2011
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Riddled by drugs and thoroughly demoralized, the Red Army limped home to a society riddled by drugs and thoroughly demoralized, led by a Communist Party significantly delegitimized by its disastrous Afghan adventure, its Islamic territories from Chechnya to Central Asia in increasing turmoil.
Tom Engelhardt: The Urge to Surge: Washington's 30-Year High Tom Engelhardt 2011
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A call for civility in a world where each party now feels the deep wound of having had its successful candidates delegitimized is likely to be as successful as ordering a Manischewitz spritzer in a Beirut bar.
Harry Shearer: Who's Illegitimate? The Presidents. Who Says? Harry Shearer 2011
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To put sack cloth and ashes on—you've delegitimized capitalism, which is the goal of the protesters.
Are Companies Responsible for Creating Jobs? John Bussey 2011
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What indeed is the prospect, Professor Troy, when you and others, appearing before a trumped-up "inquiry" into alleged "new anti-Semitism," insist on demonizing and delegitimizing the critics of Israel while simultaneously demanding that Israel be neither demonized nor delegitimized?
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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