earnest
Example Sentences
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This was her experiment: careful, earnest, painfully homemade.
From Literature
Corny folks tend to be honest and earnest in their aims, and the best don’t care what people think.
From Salon
He has such an earnest look on his face.
From Literature
Grant, on the other hand “talks like an earnest business-man—prompt clearheaded & decisive—& utters no bosh.”
The story is plodding, the characters are boring and earnest, and the supposed comic-relief act provided by the trio of stumblebums on Arco’s trail is a wince-inducing failure.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
