adverb coined here
le·git·I·cious·ly
In a manner that performs legitimacy rather than possessing it.
The paperwork was filed legiticiously, by an office that had existed for six days.
Etymologylegit + -iciously. Proposed as legitimateciously, where the stress had to hop two syllables and could not.
NoteClip the base to fix the meter — le·git·I·cious·ly scans w·w·S·w·w, the identical shape as dis·clai·MER·cious·ly. The informal register does independent work: a word about performed legitimacy should not sound respectable.
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