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US
/ˈdʒɛnˈjuˌwaɪn, ˈdʒɛnjəwən/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɛnjuːɪn/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɛnjuːɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not fake or counterfeit
genuine leather
a genuine Picasso -
not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
her interest in people was unfeigned
true grief
genuine emotion -
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
her actual motive
a genuine dilemma
a literal solitude like a desert
How To Use genuine In A Sentence
- But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
- The Canadian police doubted he was a genuine amnesiac and held him on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
- We will pay you a suitable, er, emolument as the finder and introducer of this piece if it does turn out to be genuine and we buy it? GOTHIC PURSUIT
- Be genuine and conceal noting.I write every wiod I wand to say on this small card.I wish my honey a happy Valentine's day.
- I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDads way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback. Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- What's amazing about director Leonard Kastle's style is his ability to leap between camp and genuine moments of terror during the murder scenes.
- In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
- The material of products include: genuine leather, PU, PVC, etc.
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence.
