invalid
noun
an infirm or sickly person.
invalidly
-
a word derived from
invalid.
Example Sentences
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Comey promptly retorted with an existential attack on Halligan: His lawyers argued that she had no power to charge him or James or anyone else because she had been invalidly appointed to the office.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
“The ordinance is invalidly based. It violates my 1st Amendment rights.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Judge Nichols said courts must defer to the House’s interpretation of its own rules, so he “cannot conclude as a matter of law that the committee was invalidly constituted.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
His task now: Healing and helping those he invalidly baptized.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
As for nonjuring principles, he was so wedded to them that he could see nothing but deadly schism outside the fold over which 'our late invalidly deprived fathers' presided.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
