invalid
noun
an infirm or sickly person.
invalidly
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a word derived from
invalid.
Example Sentences
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“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
Atwood’s attorneys also told the Supreme Court in court filings that the aggravating factor that made his crime eligible for the death penalty was invalidly applied.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
As a result, “the Final Rule must be struck down as invalidly enacted.”
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018
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
