Synonyms:
legitimately, lawfully, licitly
Meaning: in a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!"
Usage examples
This great and notable plant, representing a very large outlay of money, brought to completion, ready for business, and embracing some of the most brilliant and remarkable of Edison's inventions and methods, must be abandoned by force of circumstances over which he had no control, and with it must die the high hopes that his progressive, conquering march to success had legitimately engendered.