Acceptable
Acceptable adjective - Of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards.
Genuine and acceptable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Genuine" instead an adjective "Acceptable".
Genuine
Genuine adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.
Acceptable and genuine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acceptable" instead an adjective "Genuine".
Nearby Words: genuinely, genuineness
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Both words in one sentence
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With Rising Tide, Purity-Supremacy embraces this trope as part of its intense aversion to developing genuine machine intelligence: remotely controlled giant robots are acceptable, anything that whiffs of AI is very much not.
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Being Acceptable Targets by definition, sometimes mooks serve as (or devolve into) outright comic relief rather than an actual menace by being dimwitted, ineffective, clumsy, a genuine danger to themselves or just plain unlucky.
Source: Mooks
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