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  • "What can I do for you?" the pawnbroker asks, genuinely curious.   (source)
    genuinely = truly
  • Louie and Phil stayed in the infirmary for two days, attended by Japanese who cared for them with genuine concern for their comfort and health.   (source)
    genuine = sincere (real)
  • One can only speculate about why Franz became so attached to McCandless so quickly, but the affection he felt was genuine, intense, and unalloyed.   (source)
  •   "When he proposed, she said no."
      "But she married him," I said, genuinely confused.   (source)
    genuinely = truly
  • To me, Phoebe whispered, "I think I'm having a genuine heart attack."   (source)
    genuine = real
  • Darry spun around to face me, genuine fear on his face.   (source)
  • Winifred, after her first little scream of genuine fright, made an insincere fuss.   (source)
  • Glen looked at Claude to see if he'd meant to provoke him, but Claude looked genuinely sincere.   (source)
    genuinely = truly
  • It's how genuinely happy she looks.   (source)
  • Newt nodded, and his smile became more genuine.   (source)
    genuine = real (sincere)
  • Both Maxon and Gavril looked over to the king and queen, and the camera panned over to show them looking at each other, smiling and holding hands. It seemed genuine, but how would we know any better?   (source)
  • "But what about their parents?" asked Miss Caroline, in genuine concern.   (source)
    genuine = real or sincere
  • Understand that I'm just an extremely learned albino and you needn't listen to me, but I suggest you conjure an Alice Liddell of genuine flesh and blood and personality.   (source)
    genuine = real
  • He lay dreaming that he was throwing baseballs at a cloth cat and winning a genuine Navajo blanket.   (source)
  • Maybe there was something behind the ego and self-righteousness after all—something surprisingly genuine.   (source)
  • It all depends on the signature of the name; and that is genuine, I suppose, Mrs. Helmer?   (source)
  • Beatrice's indignation sounded genuine.†   (source)
  • Their generosity and genuine delight in feeding others prove my theory that the more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal.†   (source)
  • I looked toward my wife with a genuine smile and felt her relax.†   (source)
  • And I am genuinely interested.†   (source)
  • I was gratified to see genuine surprise and pleasure.†   (source)
  • I knew they were genuine.†   (source)
  • They seem genuinely upset that he never does.†   (source)
  • He seemed genuinely pleased, and she sat down by him.†   (source)
  • I've never doubted that she meant what she said—that her desire to witness to others was a genuine one.†   (source)
  • He was genuinely happy for Woody, but he was also deeply envious.†   (source)
  • "That's wonderful to hear," he said, seeming genuinely pleased.†   (source)
  • The divining rod in my mind dipped sharply and a spring gushed water when I remembered that I was on a genuine, regulation lifeboat and that such a lifeboat was surely outfitted with supplies.†   (source)
  • To those who are genuinely concerned, I push a button to say, "I have spastic bilateral quadriplegia, also known as cerebral palsy.†   (source)
  • Fache had no doubt the shock on Langdon's face was genuine, and yet he sensed another emotion there too, as if a distant fear were suddenly simmering in the American's eyes.†   (source)
  • She seemed genuinely disappointed that no one had answered her signal, as if meeting David would have been even better than showing off the rapids, the ruins, and the roller coaster.†   (source)
  • But it also creates genuine connections with clients.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weasley, however, seemed genuinely concerned at Dudley's peculiar behavior.†   (source)
  • It never feels genuine.†   (source)
  • He sounded genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • But each time, Jen greeted him with big hugs and acted genuinely thrilled to see him.†   (source)
  • She seemed genuinely pleased that he hadn't cheated, despite having encouraged him to do just that.†   (source)
  • Stargirl seemed genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • I was surrounded by other dweebs, who seemed genuinely happy to see me.†   (source)
  • Chablis looked at me with genuine surprise.†   (source)
  • "Hey, kid," Ares said, seeming genuinely pleased to see me.†   (source)
  • Mother gasps over a genuine Yankee bullethole in the front parlor, the bullet still lodged in the wood.†   (source)
  • It was later shown to be genuine.†   (source)
  • He looked me in the eye, not with the blank, unseeing stare of the Nazis, but with genuine interest and even a glint of humor.†   (source)
  • It would come as a genuine surprise even to me.†   (source)
  • Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.†   (source)
  • It was the genuine tone in Esther's voice that made the phrase finally begin to sink into my mind and heart.†   (source)
  • Somehow …. he sounds so genuine, so serious.†   (source)
  • I would be careful not to confuse your g-g-g-grief with genuine, religious belief …†   (source)
  • My genuine foreignness frightens him.†   (source)
  • He seemed genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • But I began to see that Chet was weakened by the very genuineness of his interest in learning.†   (source)
  • So the Cultural Revolution was born out of both Mao's genuine frustration and his desire to regain the upper hand in a power struggle that threatened his position.†   (source)
  • It was genuine Meissen porcelain, the work of the great artist Horoldt, who painted it in 1726.†   (source)
  • And although she believed that the isa-ifi which had been dug up was genuine, she could not ignore the fact that some really evil children sometimes misled people into digging up a specious one.†   (source)
  • This knife is genuine solid twenty-four-karat silver.†   (source)
  • I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me.†   (source)
  • He looked around in genuine surprise as the police officers jumped out of their car and grabbed him.†   (source)
  • I wasn't planning to, but she looks at me with such genuine concern that everything spills out.†   (source)
  • Although each father is unique in his own way, they all have one thing in common—genuine love for their children.†   (source)
  • But could that mean, despite the doubts I'd harbored even as an eightyear-old, that the pictures were genuine?†   (source)
  • She was trying to appear to be very frightened, and if you didn't know Sunny it would have seemed genuine.†   (source)
  • Rachel looked genuinely distressed.†   (source)
  • Ashima laughs, her first genuine laugh after giving birth.†   (source)
  • He rewound the tape and pointed to a moment when Renee reacted with genuine surprise to something on the screen.†   (source)
  • He seems genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • When Park's parents got home, they seemed genuinely glad to see Eleanor.†   (source)
  • His expression was too genuine, too sure.†   (source)
  • "Better Piggy than Fatty," he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that.†   (source)
  • I guess I'm a genuine teacher now," I said.†   (source)
  • She seemed genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • But Shmuel's smile was so genuine.†   (source)
  • "I have to throw you hard enough to make it look genuine," he said.†   (source)
  • ABIGAIL, to the ceiling, in a genuine conversation with the "bird," as though trying to talk it out of attacking her: But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face.†   (source)
  • Her doctor wrote, "Patient has been complaining bitterly of pain and she seems genuinely miserable.†   (source)
  • Ford looked back at him, genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • And yet they came pretty thick, as though someone wanted to make very sure that Ender believed that the letter was genuine.†   (source)
  • It's a genuine, pure laugh that makes me smile.†   (source)
  • His tone was genuinely curious—not angry, not sarcastic.†   (source)
  • "In the event of a true and genuine emergency, an absolute and undeniable crime, the authorities must be notified immediately," said The Criminal Element.†   (source)
  • He looks genuinely confused—and hurt, too, as though I'm the one who did something wrong.†   (source)
  • But this is a one-hundredpercent genuine ambulance with one-hundred-percent genuine licence papers.†   (source)
  • Is it genuine?†   (source)
  • Genuine pleasure.†   (source)
  • Genuine saints.†   (source)
  • As cramped as things were, there was a genuine family bond.†   (source)
  • They did not put much value on my capacities, which were admittedly few, but genuine.†   (source)
  • He was pleasant and genuinely concerned.†   (source)
  • "Why would you say that?" he asked, very innocently and genuine.†   (source)
  • They knew how to fire up a church the old-fashioned way, without talk of politics and bad mouthing and negativity but with real talk of God and genuine concern for its parishioners.†   (source)
  • Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.†   (source)
  • She looked genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • There is genuine fear in his eyes.†   (source)
  • His look of shock had to be genuine… unless Als were consummate actors.†   (source)
  • He seemed genuinely pleased that I was coming to live with him for the first time with any degree of permanence.†   (source)
  • And Joyce Thompson was genuinely curious about this domestic situation.†   (source)
  • But it took horrific shock, delivered in March 2001, to cause genuine international outrage.†   (source)
  • Courtney does come off as genuinely sweet.†   (source)
  • He relished the company and the genuine hospitality, so different from Dr. Stuart's impolite, hostile reception.†   (source)
  • The big duels—between Hector and Ajax, between Diomedes and Paris, between Hector and Patroclus, between Hector and Achilles—are genuinely exciting and suspenseful, their outcomes sources of grand celebration and dismay.†   (source)
  • He preferred to be called Uncle Eamon, and when he strode through campus, he did so as would a beloved uncle, a first-term Teddy Roosevelt, accessible and genuine.†   (source)
  • Nollie was genuinely shocked.†   (source)
  • He'd come around to the door to find out how much gas they wanted, then wheel around to the pump and pump it, then come back around to the door to get the money, then wheel back to the garage to get their change and their Genuine Crystal Goblet, since Gulf was running a special.†   (source)
  • For the first time in months, I was genuinely happy.†   (source)
  • The men genuinely liked her.†   (source)
  • That's one hundred percent genuine silk.†   (source)
  • "Oh, ho, listen to this," says the man with the glass eye, genuinely amused.†   (source)
  • Many individual franchisees are genuinely concerned about the well-being of their workers.†   (source)
  • I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonic—Dad'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.†   (source)
  • Plus I found myself genuinely curious.†   (source)
  • They genuinely believe they're entitled to it.†   (source)
  • It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best.†   (source)
  • Ammu smiled and they shook hands, as though she really was being awarded a Certificate of Merit for being an honest-to-goodness Genuine Bourgeoise.†   (source)
  • Within a matter of weeks she built a reputation for being genuinely talented.†   (source)
  • He sounded genuinely regretful.†   (source)
  • This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question; indeed, it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him.†   (source)
  • But most people will be genuinely appreciative of your make-good efforts.†   (source)
  • Then he took hold of the button on my coat, put his red-cheeked face close to mine, and said, with either genuine or pretended conviction, 'They'll soon let us out.†   (source)
  • Something simple, warm, intimate, genuine; this was holy.†   (source)
  • If it's determined that you are running hard because you genuinely like it then you can have an athletic permit.†   (source)
  • Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be.†   (source)
  • He's genuinely flattered when people tell him they enjoy his music, and he's clever enough to get his adoring fans to repeat their praise.†   (source)
  • At a party you find yourself surrounded by genuine talented writers, employed at high-profile, respected newspapers and magazines.†   (source)
  • Then he bathed, arranged his beard and waxed his mustache in an atmosphere saturated with genuine cologne from Farina Gegeniber, and dressed in white linen, with a vest and a soft hat and cordovan boots.†   (source)
  • Plays like a genuine Varota, though there's no signature on it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I heard genuine sympathy in the voice that said it.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It genuinely, surely is.†   (source)
  • It certainly seemed genuine enough; it had a stamp and a postmark.†   (source)
  • Showing brown teeth, China seemed to be genuinely enjoying Mr. Henry.†   (source)
  • Saeed's mother would sometimes wonder whether he did this out of genuine desire or habit or simply for closeness.†   (source)
  • In the street people were genuinely happy to see her.†   (source)
  • Felix seemed genuinely taken aback by the idea.†   (source)
  • The elderly novelist, tall and stooped, seemed genuinely glad for news of Haiti, especially of the egregious Petit Pierre.†   (source)
  • The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.†   (source)
  • Men who cooperated with camp authorities in any way could be labeled inu, as well as those genuine informers inside the camp who relayed information to the War Department and to the FBI.†   (source)
  • Finally, genuine tears.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that he wanted to make anything more out of the man; he felt genuinely sorry for him.†   (source)
  • Patch asked, sounding genuinely interested.†   (source)
  • She seemed genuinely surprised.†   (source)
  • Fifty Genuine Maps!†   (source)
  • Today, however, the family genuinely shared its joy over our daughter's birthday.†   (source)
  • He has a genuine grin on his face, without trying to act cocky or cool.†   (source)
  • Though the smile was genuine, it was weary.†   (source)
  • While many in the ANC, including myself, were eager to bail out the women, Lilian Ngoyi, the national president of the Women's League, and Helen Joseph, secretary of the South African Women's Federation, believed that for theprotest to be genuine and effective, the women should serve whatever time the magistrate ordered.†   (source)
  • "ONE GENUINE TURNPIKE TOLLBOOTH," it stated—and then it went on: "EASILY ASSEMBLED AT HOME, AND FOR USE BY THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER TRAVELED IN LANDS BEYOND."†   (source)
  • He looks genuinely puzzled.†   (source)
  • I started with a genuine, 'I'm sorry.'†   (source)
  • He's my friend, and he's genuinely worried.†   (source)
  • Bill Mehlinger found himself with barely a free weekend because he was so busy going to weddings of his current and former employees—events he found he genuinely enjoyed, even if he didn't understand the particularities behind the rites.†   (source)
  • An expert tracker, he missed little or nothing and was one of the very few rabbits for whom Woundwort felt a genuine respect.†   (source)
  • (BENEATHA and WALTER merely watch and listen with genuine interest) LINDNER Yes—that's the way we feel out in Clybourne Park.†   (source)
  • She seemed genuinely mystified, as if she hadn't terrorized them for days into thinking of this outing as equivalent to going to the doctor for their booster shots.†   (source)
  • It seemed like she was genuinely happy that I was there.†   (source)
  • I wanted my "sorry" to sound genuine, because it was.†   (source)
  • Miss Lydia did not invite the young men employed about the mill, not having as yet undertaken their uplifting; and feeling quite inadequate to cope with the relations between them and the mill girls, which would be something vital and genuine, and as such, quite foreign—if not inimical—to her enterprise.†   (source)
  • There was genuine concern that much of the city's industry would go elsewhere, especially to Milwaukee and St. Louis.†   (source)
  • Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified—really, genuinely brave.†   (source)
  • Why, thank you, Gen. Did he sound genuinely flattered?†   (source)
  • "Gentlemen, I assume that you all regard this information as genuine," Ryan said cautiously, getting nods.†   (source)
  • (genuinely moved by Sam's image) Jesus, Sam!†   (source)
  • You go in that church and act genuine.†   (source)
  • Bol never had been able to get the war straight, but he had been genuinely sorry when it ended.†   (source)
  • He's a good man who genuinely cared about Chinese women and was horrified by coerced abortions.†   (source)
  • I knew that his concern was genuine because he wanted me to reach my full potential, and it was exciting that he saw such potential in me.†   (source)
  • Sam Cole seemed genuinely surprised but pleased.†   (source)
  • Some guys are annoying with their questions or come off as cocky, but Adam was so genuine, you wanted to give him all you could.†   (source)
  • He dug deep, but he genuinely couldn't think of a single reason why he shouldn't buy sweets.†   (source)
  • He appreciated Lorenzo's offbeat ideas and felt that the long-haired goofball had genuine talent.†   (source)
  • And perhaps I can pass this one off as a genuine Agulen.†   (source)
  • Where did you ever find it, Bird?" she asked, fingering the straps with genuine admiration.†   (source)
  • I do get the feeling he genuinely wants to help.†   (source)
  • And certainly it was from Bree that the art of smoking the genuine weed spread in the recent centuries among Dwarves and such other folk, Rangers, Wizards, or wanderers, as still passed to and fro through that ancient road-meeting.†   (source)
  • "Master John, be ye awake?" the animal said, a note of genuine concern in his voice.†   (source)
  • I was being more polite than genuinely interested.†   (source)
  • "I think this one's the genuine article," said Chin.†   (source)
  • This country's a genuine republic.†   (source)
  • Aarfy asked with genuine puzzlement, tucking his face away protectively inside the cushioning insulation of his oval shoulders.†   (source)
  • Not a genuine smile or even a sarcastic smile, but an I'm-going-to-ruin-your-life-and-enjoy-doing-it smile.†   (source)
  • Imagine if he'd mixed it up with Head or one of the school's genuinely tough kids.†   (source)
  • Wesley's grin turned into a genuine smile.†   (source)
  • Was he genuinely incapable of abandoning his erotic friendships?†   (source)
  • In fact, I'm beginning to feel as though I genuinely am being stalked.†   (source)
  • The smile seemed genuine and suggested a better disposition than Helen's.†   (source)
  • They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases—the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything.†   (source)
  • Their display was simple abandonment to affection, foolish in any other context, but completely genuine here.†   (source)
  • She denied any knowledge of it and seemed genuinely surprised, even hurt.†   (source)
  • "Oob," she sighed, trying to sound genuinely interested.†   (source)
  • I finally discovered the beautiful, paradoxical truth that genuine concern for the welfare of others is the gateway to the only real satisfaction for myself.†   (source)
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