How to Use delegitimize in a Sentence

delegitimize

verb

• This would delegitimize the Supreme Court, which would be bad for the country as a whole.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• Democrats spent the next eight years trying to delegitimize Bush.
  — Rachel Marsden, Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• Claims such as these could be used to delegitimize the declared winner of a race.
  — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2020
• Biden has downplayed the need to mess with the schedule while playing up the prospect Trump will seek to delegitimize the contest.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 30 July 2020
• That in turn could delegitimize the court and provide a basis for packing it.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The point of the pile-on is to hurt the reputation of the Justice as part of the larger effort to delegitimize the current Supreme Court.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• That does not, though, delegitimize Day’s praise for the recent Findlay grad.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• It was used as a personal attack against him and as a way to delegitimize his activist work.
  — al, 5 Feb. 2020
• Trump shouldn’t be trying to delegitimize the process, a point that journalists have often made.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
• But this does not delegitimize Mr. Trump or the message his voters were trying to send by electing him.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Facebook will ban any ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of the election, the company said Wednesday.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• Trump's statements, which have sought to delegitimize and politicize the actions of the courts, is serving as a key driver of the violent rhetoric.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The point of it all has been to delegitimize President Trump's victory.
  — Fox News, 18 July 2018
• What better way to dismiss or delegitimize the heretics than to smear them as covert members of the opposition?
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
• There have been many attempts made throughout the years to delegitimize and demonize Israel, the only Jewish state in the world.
  — Jacob Millner, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2017
• And Justice Barrett is not the only jurist Mrs. Pelosi seeks to delegitimize.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2020
• In years past, the Kremlin’s goal was to delegitimize the opposition in the eyes of the public and keep it out of official politics.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
• For more than a decade, the BDS movement has been working to delegitimize Israel, using half-truths, white lies, black lies, and polka dot lies.
  — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• These messages delegitimize the anxiety and heartbreak ripping through our country and the world right now, robbing us of the right to have bad days in the midst of this crisis.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 22 May 2020
• The movement has grown in recent years, and many supporters of Israel have seen it as an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish state.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Some scholars, including Teeter, say these seizures were meant to add weight to the creations rather than delegitimize the previous builders’ work.
  — Emma Schkloven, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• In the months that followed, millions took to the streets in protest and worked to delegitimize the government through a campaign of civil disobedience.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
• This is clearly a partisan move to muddy the waters in an attempt to delegitimize Lt.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• The mobilization of thugs could further delegitimize the government and make the protest boil over further.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• Cheney voted to impeach and then continued to push back on Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the results of the election.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 14 June 2021
• The flip side is that the president over the last four years has been involved in the most concerted campaign to discredit and delegitimize the press in our history.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2020
• And just because the world may have missed the first target does not delegitimize the overall goal of limiting warming as much as possible.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
• Trump’s public attacks on Atkinson have been part of his larger attempts to delegitimize the whistle-blower and the process that led to the disclosure of the complaint.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• If gloves-off politics isn’t enough to win power, then the second option is to delegitimize the process entirely.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• Having delegitimized himself on all fronts, Gorbachev wound up, Radchenko somewhat rudely reminds us, making a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997.
  — John Lewis Gaddis, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024