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:

An earnest analysis of women in the military advocates that the Pentagon use the techniques that helped integrate blacks into the services.
but not my earnest, softened gaze as one of your hands touched my face and our two shadows between us fused darkly in the piazza at noon just beyond Dieter or Hans, that June.
The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz also praises the film, saying "it will strike a chord with audiences for the same reason that its predecessors did: It is earnest, well-meaning, and delightfully free of irony.
Cage plays Tom Welles, an earnest, professionally polite private investigator summoned to the manse of a recently deceased tycoon.
With children who are literate but not large, and omnipresent X-rated news, mothers and fathers have been in for a lot of lip-biting, brow-furrowing, and earnest throat-clearing.