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Meanings of earnest in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dear"
Examples for "dear"
1
Nothing serious, my dear Watson, or I should certainly ask for your
2
He did not live in India, dear; he never lived in India.
3
When will banks learn that dodgy tax practices actually cost them dear?
4
Help me, dear Lord, to say whatever my daughters need to hear.
5
All this costs the economy dear in terms of productivity and growth.
1
It notes Labor lost support among Christians, particularly devout, first-generation migrant Christians.
2
But that work brought the devout Christian into frequent conflict with authorities.
3
But the nuns spend the evening in prayer, so do the devout.
4
He believes that a return to devout worship will alleviate the problems.
5
It's possible it was practiced only by a devout sprinkling of farmers.
1
His advice was simple and heartfelt: keep going and follow your heart.
2
Andrew Arnott Our heartfelt sympathies go to her family, friends and colleagues.
3
There was surely in it a quality that was personal and heartfelt.
4
The weariness of the last months escaped her in this heartfelt outburst.
5
Mr. Jalali started the car, then gave her a long, heartfelt look.
Usage of earnest in English
1
Nervous intensity may not so much mar the effect of earnest debate.
2
Therefore, before the process begins, an earnest money agreement must be made.
3
Therefore, at Smith's earnest request, I made an exception in your case.
4
Moreover, I doubt whether they are really in earnest about this war.
5
Yet the actual Convention consisted of grave men in an earnest mood.
6
No trifling in the matter at all; I am in sober earnest.
7
Actually I haven't been more in earnest for a good many days.
8
Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate.
9
I hope that I shall shortly have your earnest cooperation, as well.
10
The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest.
11
The war had now begun in earnest; and our advance was unintermitted.
12
After this ceremony had been concluded, there was much earnest debate in.
13
By 1846 instruction in needlework had been begun in earnest in England.
14
He searched the house in earnest for the marks of recent history.
15
He is unassuming in manner, blithe in company, earnest in the pulpit.
16
In the pulpit he drives forward in the same earnest, matter-of-fact style.
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Earnest through the time
Earnest across language varieties
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United States of America
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