Genuine, from the Latin for "in good faith": 2 wds

Usage examples of bonafide.

Not only did they win an unprecedented five gold medals, but one of those medalists, Sugar Ray Leonard, emerged as a bonafide superstar.

The police had come in to inspect and clean up what was now a bonafide crime site.

Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him.

Not seeing why a set of bonafide officers should gratuitously murder a chauffeur, I had been wondering whether the quartet might not be impostors, tricked out in uniforms to which they had no claim.

No buttons, threads, dropped wallets, white powder, semen, or anything readily identifiable as a bonafide clue was in evidence.

Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.

To the Enochist objection that such a policy devaluated Final Examination and true Commencement, it could now be answered that a bonafide Grand Tutor was in residence, whose function it would be to review and authenticate the status of any who presently claimed Candidacy or actual Graduateship, and to act as Examiner of all future Candidates.

Following Max's advice I reminded them that I had done the unexampled in passing the Trial-by-Turnstile and was therefore a fully matriculated Candidate -- not for any paltry Certification of Proficiency but for bonafide Graduation -- who ought to be ushered at once into the Chancellor's presence.