All 14 Uses of
genuine
in
Bleak House
- But as Ada interposed and laughingly said she could only feel proud of such genuine admiration, Mr. Krook shrunk into his former self as suddenly as he had leaped out of it.†
Chpt 4-6
- If he really meant it—if his will were genuine and real, which it was—it appeared to him that it was the same as coin, and cancelled the obligation.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- His job done, he sets off for Tom-all-Alone's, stopping in the light of innumerable gas-lamps to produce the piece of gold and give it another one-sided bite as a reassurance of its being genuine.†
Chpt 16-18
- "I think not," I returned, raising my head from my work to look at him; and there was something so genuine in his speech and manner that I was glad of the opportunity.†
Chpt 22-24
- Miss Wisk's mission, my guardian said, was to show the world that woman's mission was man's mission and that the only genuine mission of both man and woman was to be always moving declaratory resolutions about things in general at public meetings.†
Chpt 28-30
- The brick-kilns were examined, the cottages were visited, the two women were particularly questioned, but they knew nothing of him, and nobody could doubt that their wonder was genuine.†
Chpt 31-33
- I feel as if I do; I know that," says Mr. Weevle with a very genuine shudder.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mrs. Bagnet gathers up her cloak to wipe her eyes on in a very genuine manner, "How could you do it?"†
Chpt 34-36
- He took it in his, holding me lightly with his arm, and looking down into my face with the same genuine freshness and faithfulness of manner—the old protecting manner which had made that house my home in a moment—said, "You have wrought changes in me, little woman, since the winter day in the stage-coach.†
Chpt 43-45
- It shall pollute, this very night, the choice stream (in which chemists on analysis would find the genuine nobility) of a Norman house, and his Grace shall not be able to say nay to the infamous alliance.†
Chpt 46-48
- He is not one of Mrs. Pardiggle's Tockahoopo Indians; he is not one of Mrs. Jellyby's lambs, being wholly unconnected with Borrioboola-Gha; he is not softened by distance and unfamiliarity; he is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.†
Chpt 46-48
- "Then she is as honest and genuine as she looks," rejoined my guardian, "and it is impossible to say more for her."†
Chpt 52-54
- My Lady, my good Lady," the old housekeeper pleads with genuine simplicity, "I am so humble in my place and you are by nature so high and distant that you may not think what I feel for my child, but I feel so much that I have come here to make so bold as to beg and pray you not to be scornful of us if you can do us any right or justice at this fearful time!"†
Chpt 55-57
- "Is this will considered a genuine document, sir?" said Allan.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)