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 sardonicDad’s 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
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  • 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.
  • I would also argue that the results Kumon reports achieving have little to do with their philosophy and practice about teaching and learning and much more to do with the fact that it gets parents and assistants as its teachers are called genuinely involved in children's learning. Ellen Galinsky: Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten? How About a Good Track to Learning in Kindergarten and Beyond?
  • Harvard-educated Internet entrepreneur and cosmopolite Alex Vik and his wife, Carrie, set out to conjure up a comprehensive personal vision here that involves ranch life, sports, and luxury; a genuine sense of place; and a reach for something universal. Off the Beaten Track
  • Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
  • He needed at least three days to assess the genuineness of their intentions.
  • Certainly all reports spoke of genuine smiles on the Girls' faces, of their brightness and animation.
  • It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
  • At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
  • The size and familiarity of the little lamb is genuinely touching. Times, Sunday Times
  • He seemed a really genuine guy and sincerely appreciated that we had been following the tour.
  • I phrased it as a sarcastic taunt, but I genuinely wanted to know the answer.
  • Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming.
  • For a genuine old-fashioned family carriage commend us to the araba. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
  • Cher's music career continued to flourish, but the Oscar made her a genuine movie star, even if she's only made a handful of movies since.
  • These public spats are genuine enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the Kelly gang appears to have posed a genuine threat to the authority of the ruling colonials, the film prefers to focus on the adventures of the outlaws rather than an increasingly desperate establishment.
  • Every few years Oscar sees fit to reward genuine artistry, thereby reminding us why we watch the show in the first place.
  • We would urge celebrities and icons not to support energy dense foods and to make sure it is a genuinely healthy product they promote.
  • If I am injured in body or pocket I expect the person causing that injury to compensate me for any losses that I incur unless it has been a genuine accident.
  • Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
  • Victor's authority is appealed to by those who deem the last twelve verses of S. Mark's Gospel spurious, it would of course be inferred that his evidence is hostile to the verses in question; whereas his evidence to their genuineness is the most emphatic and extraordinary on record. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
  • When it comes to national security, however, no one can say with assurance whether her metamorphosis is genuine.
  • The number of individuals is infinite; the generic or specific nature of all being is a unit, or to be apprehended as one only thing; from this one conception we give the genuine measures of all existence, and therefore we affirm that a certain class of beings are rational and discoursive. Essays and Miscellanies
  • It seems likely to do just that as a social barometer of genuine historical value that records everything from the British public's reactions to regional accents to the history of sudoku.
  • Such completely general terms as ‘thing’ ‘entity’ or ‘object’, on Dummett's view, are not genuine sortal terms, since they fail to provide any criteria of identity.
  • Buying rural property is a complex business that requires the help of genuine experts.
  • Each year a select few men and women are honored because of their genuinely heroic contributions to the enhancement of cooperative enterprise and to the advancement of the principles of cooperation.
  • ‘I'm glad to hear it,’ he replied, and the genuine smile he gave me let me know he meant it.
  • At the beginning of the film, her Toula is genuinely uncomely.
  • I'm convinced she is absolutely genuine.
  • Critical seminars within the university may sometimes blur this distinction if they contain elements of genuine intellectual exchange.
  • I'm afraid to say whilst there are some good landlords and landladies in town, there are also some who need to stop looking so miserable, put a smile on their face and start offering a genuine welcome along with some value for money
  • Coming as it does in a period when many cash-strapped independent schools face the prospect of mergers or closure, he suggests that the initiative reeks more of marketing than a genuine desire to stimulate debate.
  • Once school districts begin busing thousands (millions?) of children to NFL games for field trips, then maybe the comparison will be a little more genuine. Opera versus the NFL, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • It does not therefore describe the collision of genuinely non-aligned gravitational waves.
  • I think a genuine concern is raised by people concerning the graphic image of that young girl who had been napalmed.
  • If your heart has a vacancy, a jokey text message could be disguising genuine love feelings. The Sun
  • Plus there's a colossal boot, loads of space inside, extremely comfortable seats and a genuine sense of quality.
  • I genuinely mean that - I am indebted to the team here for putting up with my pet hates and musings every week.
  • A number of forged works of art have been sold as genuine.
  • As a result, bullfighting was left to the plebeians who in turn enthusiastically took up to its practice, and took it to heart as a symbol of something genuinely Spanish.
  • The beauty of a tailored suit is that you can add personal touches to make your suit look genuine and unique.
  • Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils, ... nor, I think, will the human race. All the President's Lies
  • This lady was genuinely surprised at what happened to her pet.
  • The men I spoke to genuinely thought they'd completed their families then divorce hit and they hooked up with childless women. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aim To discern the false from the genuine of Dexamethasone Acetate Tablets.
  • Judging from all the telephone calls and emails flying around right now among intelligence veterans, the mood is one of disappointment and genuine concern.
  • Achates, and the tender Nisus, were all genuine friends and great heroes; but, alas, existent only in fable: A Philosophical Dictionary
  • But genuine co-operation between colonies seems always to boil down to pure parasitism.
  • Hickock, who was a genuinely skilled shot, drew, took careful aim (some versions have him using a fencepost as a rest), and drilled Tutt through the heart. David E.
  • Sharing a genuine concern for the future of mankind? Times, Sunday Times
  • You can say that you genuinely forgot, or got muddled up or fibbed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet Pétain was no such thing; he was a lifelong soldier and a genuine war hero, rather than some preening sham in jackboots.
  • I'm wondering whether this really is a genuine Rolex. Do you think I've been sold a pup?
  • For he took a genuine interest in his pupils; and, in that first year of his teaching, carried his class to surprising lengths, nor let them betray any evidences of unthoroughness when they went trembling up to the examinations provided by the great Anton himself, in the mid-year term. The Genius
  • And the genuine fusion of Marxism with the working-class movement was reflected in the changing social composition of the party.
  • The bureaucrats and political executive at the state level, have a vested interest to centralise powers and authority and their hostility to evolve a genuine system of democratic decentralisation is well known.
  • Go out into the real world where you can meet a genuine partner. The Sun
  • I want your assurance that you will always allow genuine gipsies to camp there.
  • What we have now is a kind of a disconnect between that genuine grassroots movement and the old oligarchs, if you will, who are busy self perpetuating themselves.
  • Genuine international concern over the possibility of all-out war breaking out was expressed on a number of occasions.
  • You do some deep thinking about relationships and know who has warm and genuine love to offer. The Sun
  • Tough a liyyle strange those questions are no difficulty for the genuine aficionado.
  • The irony gets a little heavy-handed - one of the baldies discovers love while picking up an anorexic chick in the hospital cafeteria - but the sentiment is genuine.
  • This ring is genuine gold.
  • There was a risk of genuine refugees being returned to Vietnam.
  • That disaggregation permits the creation of a wide range of new forms of governance, including relationships between national and international courts, that will be the backbone of a genuinely global justice system.
  • You look at love in a wise way and see the difference between flattery and genuine feelings. The Sun
  • If you want to meet a real Southerner, Jake is the genuine article.
  • But to watch a whiplash rapper ride the crest of an orchestral forte is a genuine awakening.
  • If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
  • I'm not a fan of the honours system, or peerages in general because very few genuinely deserve to be lifted in status.
  • When most motorists have a genuine and convenient public transport alternative for their journey, that is the time to implement car park cuts.
  • I'm not surprised the offer wasn't genuine, it sounded too good to be true.
  • Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
  • Was he genuinely not aware of the sort of law-abiding person you are? Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘It was also clear that he was genuinely contrite and that he had never previously been in any kind of trouble with the police,’ he said.
  • Well, some girls specialise in married men because they're dumb, nasty bitches who genuinely dislike other women.
  • It was a job of the utmost precision, and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine.
  • His wit was quick and always kept his friends laughing; he had a genuine heart and sense of chivalry.
  • Simon Callow's fine Sir Toby is also a genuine rural blueblood whose highest praise for Maria is that "she is a beagle, true bred", yet who is also capable of insensate cruelty. Twelfth Night - review | Theatre | Michael Billington
  • In other words, what we need is a genuine commitment to the principles of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.
  • There is no challenge more pressing nor more fundamental than developing a genuinely sustainable way of life for humankind.
  • Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
  • Hosted by a crazed Japanese comedian and judged by a crack team of genuine Japanese schoolgirls, all of the show, save the sketches, is performed in Japanese.
  • The most effective scents for getting a genuine physical reaction were mixtures of lavender and pumpkin pie, doughnut and black liquorice, and pumpkin pie and doughnut.
  • It means people who are genuine terror threats may have been issued uniforms. The Sun
  • They were genuinely intrigued by the story and felt little need to elaborate on what already seemed so outlandish.
  • He laughed again, but this time it seemed more genuine.
  • These complaints were not the normal tirade of abuse and insults we receive but seemed genuine.
  • Elf is a charmingly daffy movie that feels like a leap back in time to more genuinely heart-warming Christmas fare.
  • Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
  • This is the most ungenuine congressperson of the 10th I have ever seen. Hey Mark, I wear a 5B!
  • He has got that ability to turn a game in an instant - often with something that genuinely leaves you open-mouthed. The Sun
  • He seems so honest and genuine and my every instinct says he's not.
  • Their sudden outburst was obviously genuine; it couldn't have been contrived.
  • "That's so not true" he countered defensively, looking as if he was genuinely hurt.
  • For the refuge in the Buddha to be genuine, it must be accompanied by a commitment to the Buddha as an incomparable teacher, as unexcelled and unsurpassed.
  • Let's be honest, business is about exchanging goods for cash; no genuine business would deliberately omit a mention of its products and a description of its operations.
  • The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants. The Books of the New Testament
  • If it had been in one of those accepted as genuine and poetical I would have remembered the ballad, but my impression is that it was condemned as a fabrication for this and other neologies. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • For this genuinely commercial purpose there will be no Revenue objection to the changing of accounting bases or dates.
  • It was then that we planned to break up the old sectionalizing, localizing, mischief-breeding, contiguous districts, and establish a genuine general superintendence, and general fund system, to pay all the Bishops an equal salary. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
  • Maya Romanoff This wallcover from Maya Romanoff has genuine capiz shell tiles, inlaid by hand. Wallcovers That Do More Than Just Cover Walls
  • Over a large gin and tonic, he veers between amused bafflement at all the fuss and genuine hurt that he has been cast as a monster. Times, Sunday Times
  • Problems aside, at least this set offers the genuine article.
  • Public disapproval is certainly pointing to a genuine problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • The genuine protestors were joined by outside agitators, intent on encouraging violence.
  • I wonder if he thinks his mailbag is a sign that the English are genuinely becoming more emotional about food. The Guardian World News
  • Yet for almost two hours he carried the crowd with genuine charm and a canny knack of making his fans feel like friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • The child of parents who are themselves eternal children, Harriet is married off to a much older man, Freddie, for whom she has no genuine emotion other than vague gratitude. The Ones That Got Away « Tales from the Reading Room
  • What is more, the book has generated some genuinely warm and enthusiastic reviews.
  • The passion that underlay her opinions - which could seem arbitrary at times, and were often as unpredictable as her temperament - was doubtless genuine.
  • Genuine opposition parties have been subjected to dirty tricks ahead of the election. Times, Sunday Times
  • Few will be moved by its case against the company today, even though the grievance is genuine.
  • He seems oblivious that he is ignoring their guest and offending an upset wife who has done her best to provide genuine hospitality. Christianity Today
  • The only genuine parts of the whole televised event were the blast-off and splashdown.
  • What, then, we have to beware of, is not being refuted, but seeming to be, because of course the asking of amphibolies and of questions that turn upon ambiguity, and all the other tricks of that kind, conceal even a genuine refutation, and make it uncertain who is refuted and who is not. On Sophistical Refutations
  • Genuine conservation means sifting through evidence, weighing options and reaching consensus. Times, Sunday Times
  • And in the early part of his career before his back trouble, Botham was a genuine strike bowler who could swing the ball both ways.
  • He'll be remembered with genuine affection.
  • Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
  • There were times he'd look at her with genuine tenderness and regret, a look that made her heart leap with hope that things might be repairable after all.
  • Most of the hustles are meant, naturally, to appear not to be hustles at all, but genuine appeals for emergency financial assistance.
  • I purchased bracelets from the league at that time the war started and provided bracelets to others genuinely concerned about returning our soldiers that were missing or prisoners in Viet Nam. Letters and Notes
  • I'm easily spooked by odd people but she seems genuine and kind. Times, Sunday Times
  • This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
  • Only the opening sequence could claim to be genuinely innovatory.
  • In keeping with tradition, tourists were genuinely treated as honored guests and pressed by locals to accept thick slices of home baked bread, the crusts constellated with sesame seeds and fragrant anise, then roasted bell peppers, black kalamata olives, white wine and cloudy, iced glasses of ouzo. The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
  • Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood. 
  • But almost always from both there is evidence that fiercely alert predatory instinct is allied with genuine virtuosity. Times, Sunday Times
  • They believe that life on earth was bioengineered by aliens and they have followers all over the world, including many genuine credentialed scientists.
  • It is not easy to translate these abstract generalities into terms that admit of a genuine comparison with our own democratic achievements…
  • We got together because of a genuine concern that the location of the proposed site is a death trap.
  • The jeweller pronounced the diamond to be genuine.
  • English wines have enjoyed a genuine renaissance over the past couple of years and are now being taken seriously on the international stage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Elsewhere, aside from a last-minute rush of bed and breakfast deals, genuine trading was quiet and sentiment was dank.
  • The store isn't just a place to exchange cash for computers… it's a place to create a genuine emotional branding experience, one that lasts.
  • When we talk about this, he becomes introspective, genuinely unsure if he had anything to apologise for or rather a lot. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to refugee experts, existing procedures failed to identify and protect genuine refugees.
  • According to these proposals, ‘genuine’ asylum seekers, it seems, are simply flotsam washed up by the tidal wave of persecution.
  • I don't like her because I find her ingenuine at times and a bit of an opportunist, but she's certainly not evil. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
  • Only nine per cent were found to be genuine political refugees.
  • The Ig Nobel Prizes were presented to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates.
  • At this stage of the game, genuine leftists should actually hope and pray that the 'Birthers' unearth (or fabricate) evidence that BarackObama was not born in the US, because every day that passes thisWall Street front-manis chipping away at what's left of the so-called progressive movement in America. Printing: Obama Taps Bush to Lead Haiti Relief Effort?!
  • Renowned holster maker Mitch Rosen offers two pocket holsters for the Guardian: genuine shell cordovan in tan with full spine stingray trim, and a high quality cowhide holster with the rough side out.
  • Here, the assonance rhyme between the two principal terms sets the stage for a compelling comparison made on a genuinely imaginative and rather unexpected basis.
  • What makes the Eleven Cities Tour extraordinary among sporting events is its genuine spontaneity.
  • It simply helps itself to the findings of genuine experimental science without being instrumental in producing any of these findings.
  • From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • He will be sadly missed because he was a very genuine person who helped with charitable causes in an unostentatious way.
  • Diode rectifier to produce environmentally - friendly series of genuine commitment : genuine environmental standards.
  • It was, they might concede, yes,  for now, genuinely quite interesting; a bit of an anomaly, but we had all the time in the world and there was nothing particularly at stake - or if you like there was   something very particular at stake, the anomaly bit, but it would soon be an anomaly no more and no rush about it. Encasement
  • The majority of those who claim asylum are genuine refugees.
  • They were genuinely outraged and grieved by it.
  • For as they see it metaphysics is a pretentious, conceptually misguided form of myth-making, a “pseudo-science” masquer - ading as a genuine source of knowledge. METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION
  • The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine. Divorce, American Style
  • His gang leader, whose only genuine motivation in the film seems to be revenge for his murdered father, is heard at the close eulogizing the street gangs and lamenting that ‘No one will even know we were here.’
  • The intelligent author of the "Treatise on British Birds" does not condescend to justify the right we claim to encage them; but he shows his genuine humanity in instructing us how to render happy and healthful their imprisonment. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • A genuine initiative, or just another excuse for backslapping and all-star music line-ups?
  • New College moved wholesale into an £11 million building, and the Duke of Edinburgh took a genuine interest in the students and their studies.
  • The secret of creating genuine lacquer was unknown in England at the time, so the real thing, imported from Asia, remained a perquisite of the very rich.
  • If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish.
  • The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more. Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23
  • There was a risk of genuine refugees being returned to Vietnam.
  • ‘You're absolutely right ’, Devlin interrupted, genuinely getting what she meant.
  • At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.
  • Some people will complain even if they have no genuine grievance.
  • IT is often hard to know how to say thank you, especially when a genuine sacrifice has been made on your behalf. The Sun
  • Government, as with the other remaining parastatal companies, has genuine reasons for maintaining these entities under its wings.
  • Imagine, apparently conclusive evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that a very few gifted individuals are genuinely clairvoyant.
  • Doing well and doing good, with a genuine rock'n ' roll esprit. LEGAL TENDER
  • For years the picture passed as a genuine Rembrandt.
  • In my early days, I was good at covering up my genuine fears and insecurities with sheer bravado. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it is only through dialogue, through genuine human engagement, that one can really understand what alonely person's condition really is. Loneliness study: Help! I need somebody
  • The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
  • The genuine superstars, he says, tend to be the least conceited.
  • Before you settle for less than the genuine article, compare the price.
  • This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
  • The meeting is open to all with a genuine interest in having a say in the future of their community.
  • Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
  • Some people will complain even if they have no genuine grievance.
  • further examination it was found that the signature was not genuine.
  • He's overcome some genuinely tough customers, but Gimenez was abject.
  • It is inhumane in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. Dave Barry 
  • When they all end up in neighbouring hotel rooms on holiday, hilarity ensues - genuinely. The Sun
  • It was a genuinely fun wee low-budget film, and contained a million instantly quotable lines.
  • Clambering aboard, top-heavy with a pack full of gear for all weathers, the pre-requisite for any decent holiday in Scotland, I am genuinely surprised at how comfortable and spacious the accommodation is.
  • When he let his genuinely winning smile come through in that interchange with Ifill over her forgetting the order, he displayed a charm that could be used devastatingly to his advantage.
  • I feel impotent to offer any genuine help to sick people. Christianity Today

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