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Genuinely
Genuinely adverb - In actual fact.
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Basically and genuinely are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Basically" instead an adverb "Genuinely".
Nearby Words: genuine, genuineness
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- She's simply genuinely off limits to him as a sister until she basically rapes him into deciding that it's pointless.
- Basically, they treat him like if he was a super-pervert of sorts who would, well, do really bad things to them if let unguarded even one second, even though he's more of a generic pervert at worst and he genuinely cares for them.
Source: The Unfair Sex -
Used for basically any situation, genuinely when she's doing something good and ironically when she's doing something bad.
Source: Memes / Touhou
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