All 5 Uses of
genuine
in
The Secret Life of Bees
- She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me genuine hope for my future.
p. 13..9genuine = real
- You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on trees and clouds.
p. 41..5genuinely = truly
- He moved like a person with a genuine love of bees.
p. 126..5genuine = true
- "When he proposed, she said no."
"But she married him," I said, genuinely confused.
p. 248..9 *genuinely = trulyeditor's notes: This introduces the moment when Lily learns that her mother married her father because she became pregnant with Lily.
- I brought the brush close to my face and stared at it, my mother's hair, a genuine part of her body.
p. 273..6genuine = actual (real)
Definition:
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(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)