half-genuine

In gales of laughter, intermingled with half-genuine cries of alarm as almost his teeth caught her toes, she always concluded by gathering him into her arms and laughing the last of her laughter away into his flattened ears of joy and love.

CHAPTER XXI 2010

Derek Roberts, shrugging his mental shoulders, gave her a practised, half-genuine smile and reckoned

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

I may try to do one next on Tashlin's repeated use of sentimental lost-love sob stories, which occur in movie after movie and are always half-ironic, half-genuine.

Fetishism, Book 2 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

I may try to do one next on Tashlin's repeated use of sentimental lost-love sob stories, which occur in movie after movie and are always half-ironic, half-genuine.

Archive 2007-07-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Derek Roberts, shrugging his mental shoulders, gave her a practised, half-genuine smile and reckoned (mistakenly) that if she had something on her mind, and didn't want to talk, it was nothing to do with him.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

On the ever-wary Caroline she bestowed a warm, maternal smile that was at least half-genuine.

Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

We followed him, enthralled by mixed motives made of desire and a sort of half-genuine respect for the courage of this man, who claimed three countries and disgraced each one at intervals in turn.

The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

In gales of laughter, intermingled with half-genuine cries of alarm as almost his teeth caught her toes, she always concluded by gathering him into her arms and laughing the last of her laughter away into his flattened ears of joy and love.

Chapter 21 1917

He regarded her critically, his head on one side, an ardour half-mocking, half-genuine, in his eyes.

The Obstacle Race 1910

He was utterly without any ambition to shine either in social life or politics, or to achieve advertisement by the affectation of a half-genuine interest in any cause.

Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910