| gen. |
discernible legitimate purpose (as opposed to, for example, the Clinton administration's indiscriminate, cynical kind of scandal bombing, conducted for no discernible legitimate purpose | ... scrutiny, which was to deem legislative motive irrelevant and to posit hypothetical or speculative ends for legislation that has no discernible legitimate purpose. | Clearly data should not be collected if it serves no discernible legitimate purpose, whether in the present or the future. Alexander Demidov) |
