Words similar to earnest

Example sentences for: earnest

How can you use “earnest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

You're no longer enticingly innocent and desirable but boringly earnest, naive, and solemn.
In 1965, for example, Dylan went electric, abandoning folk's soft sound, earnest politics, and rabidly loyal fans.
This was a game that artists had been playing in earnest since the turn of the 20th century—Lichtenstein came up with one more variation on the theme.
Instead, Paul Sledzik, an earnest young curator at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., leads me into a large, spotless storage room, unlocks File Cabinet 24, and slides out the top drawer.
What would Wilde have made of people so indifferent to both Earnest and his own famous curtain speech (here delivered by Michael Culkin)?