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Definition
real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)
- Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.Book 3 — Judges (88% in)
- Anatole gave me a surprised look over the horn rims and genuine lenses of his new glasses.Book 3 — Judges (73% in)
- Elisabet worries genuinely, in spite of our reassurances, that she and Anatole might have been assigned new first names, since theirs are European and "colonialist."Book 5 — Exodus (49% in)
- For what he teaches, for his belief in genuine independence, for his loyalty to the secret Parti Lumumbist Unifié, he could be brought down by one well-bribed informant.Book 5 — Exodus (54% in)
There are no more uses of "genuine" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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