Ivo saw that they weren't going to give him a legitimate explanation.

That would be a wholly legitimate explanation.

Mr. Gatien's lawyer said there was a legitimate explanation.

So he has a legitimate explanation for traveling the country meeting with Republicans.

"There is no legitimate explanation for what I witnessed," she said last week of the succession of disputes.

I told myself that she probably had a legitimate explanation and repeated it again when it didn't take hold.

Mr. Brafman has said he would show legitimate explanations for their accounting methods.

There is no legitimate explanation for these events nor any possibility that they escaped Picower's notice.

"I told you there was a legitimate explanation."

"There's no legitimate explanation you can make for having that door unlocked, Della."