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"genuine" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often sincere (7 letters).
Definitions
not fake or counterfeit
Word origin
From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.
Used in a sentence
“a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship”
“[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Truly authentic”7 letters
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