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Sentence count:166+7Posted:2016-09-01Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: decideddetermineddevotedresoluteserioussincereAntonym: idleindolentlazySimilar words: wildernesslearnnestearningslearn fromhonestlyearly warningyear after yearMeaning: ['ɜːnɪst]  n. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract. adj. 1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions 2. earnest 3. not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal. 
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61. Although her plan to import earnest and intelligent women failed, she did learn how to work the land.
62. But she would have fallen off anyway once the hunt started out in earnest.
63. There was some earnest grunting and scraping, but no upward progress.
64. Not some earnest, eager and ignorant lady running a slimming clinic in Slough.
65. Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.
66. The show hinges on this excruciating balance, hanging on Pennington's earnest performance.
67. She had always loved to sew, and when she had started to design in earnest wedding dresses had proved irresistible.
68. One earnest young man asked De Mille about the philosophical meaning of his films.
69. After the war, Kempton began his acting career in earnest.
70. Two men, seated in a pew in earnest conclave, looked round at her approach.
71. The old Herald, moral and earnest, was metamorphosed, with supreme irony, into the unspeakable Sun.
72. These businessmen are crusty, rough-edged fellows trying to survive in deadly earnest competition with companies much bigger than theirs.
73. On the other, a dismissal would show that we were in earnest about stopping pilferage.
74. It is my earnest wish that rugby continues to fulfil this role.
75. The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnestHenry David Thoreau 
76. And the hunt is in earnest for good old George. Sentencedict.com
77. Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? Dave Barry 
78. He began to cry in earnest, abandoning himself to a storm of weeping, sobbing against his folded arms.
79. He is young and earnest, and, like the other angels, has a job to do.
80. So he was not half as earnest and solemn as she had thought him.
81. The organiser was an earnest man in his late twenties, prematurely balding with a hissing laugh.
82. As can be imagined, they were very easily degenerated into hot-tempered battles fought in deadly earnest.
83. Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnestSam Levenson 
84. But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
85. They belonged to that earnest minority among the privileged, devoted to plain-living and high-thinking.
86. He never was in earnest, Cadfael reflected with certainty, and it would spoil his sport to use contrivance.
87. Under duress, it regularly exercises this will to sabotage the earnest efforts of its well-intentioned host.
88. If they hesitated, he could show them his revolver and his stick to convince them that he was in earnest.
89. Men huddled together in groups, deep in earnest conversations; it was here the real trading was done.
90. In an undergraduate photograph, his darkly handsome face has an air of earnest innocence.
More similar words: wildernesslearnnestearningslearn fromhonestlyearly warningyear after yearbarnwarnattorneyInternetwarningeastern europearound the cornerincarnationwitnessfitnessawarenessbusinesson businessbusinessmanwillingnessconsciousnesseffectivenessgearfeartearrearhear
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