All 5 Uses of
genuine
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- But no one was listening at that time and they only thought him eccentric at first, then undesirable, then slightly mad, and then genuinely insane.†
Part 1 *genuinely = really
- The reason you teach and you teach and you teach is that this is a very clever way of running a college on the cheap while giving a false appearance of genuine education.†
Part 2genuine = real
- We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.†
Part 3
- The truth was, he said, that he genuinely did want to know what they thought, not so that he could put a grade on it, but because he really wanted to know.†
Part 3genuinely = really
- It's just that the personality that it responds to is your real personality, the one that genuinely feels and reasons and acts, rather than any false, blown-up personality images your ego may conjure up.†
Part 3
Definition:
real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)