All 7 Uses of
genuine
in
David Copperfield
- 'Twopence-halfpenny,' says the landlord, 'is the price of the Genuine Stunning ale.'†
Chpt 10-12 *
- 'Then,' says I, producing the money, 'just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head to it.'†
Chpt 10-12
- They served me with the ale, though I suspect it was not the Genuine Stunning; and the landlord's wife, opening the little half-door of the bar, and bending down, gave me my money back, and gave me a kiss that was half admiring and half compassionate, but all womanly and good, I am sure.†
Chpt 10-12
- Nothing's genuine in the place, in my opinion, but the dirt.'†
Chpt 22-24
- It was written with a plain, unaffected, homely piety that I knew to be genuine, and ended with 'my duty to my ever darling' — meaning myself.†
Chpt 28-30
- 'Ha, ha!' laughed Mr. Peggotty, sitting down beside us, and rubbing his hands in his sense of relief from recent trouble, and in the genuine heartiness of his nature; 'there's not a woman in the wureld, sir — as I tell her — that need to feel more easy in her mind than her!†
Chpt 31-33
- If I might take the liberty of saying so, sir, I don't think the milk which is boiled with it is quite genuine; but I am aware, sir, that there is a great adulteration of milk, in London, and that the article in a pure state is difficult to be obtained.'†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)