All 13 Uses of
earnest
in
Babbitt
- He was earnest about these objects.†
Chpt 1 *
- "—love to look earnest and inform the world that it's the 'duty of responsible business men to be strictly moral, as an example to the community.'†
Chpt 5
- In fact you're so earnest about morality, old Georgie, that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.†
Chpt 5
- And at that moment George F. Babbitt turned ponderously in bed—the last turn, signifying that he'd had enough of this worried business of falling asleep and was about it in earnest.†
Chpt 7
- She was too wretchedly in earnest to be tragic, or gloriously insulted, or anything save dumpy and defenseless and flushed to the red steaminess of a boiled beet.†
Chpt 9
- The Babbitts were in earnest.†
Chpt 10
- But he was in earnest, and when he had finished the formal paper he talked to them, his hands in his pockets, his spectacled face a flashing disk, like a plate set up on edge in the lamplight.†
Chpt 13
- Teas were not unknown to Babbitt—his wife and he earnestly attended them at least twice a year—but they were sufficiently exotic to make him feel important.†
Chpt 13
- " 'But it's here in Zenith, the home for manly men and womanly women and bright kids, that you find the largest proportion of these Regular Guys, and that's what sets it in a class by itself; that's why Zenith will be remembered in history as having set the pace for a civilization that shall endure when the old time-killing ways are gone forever and the day of earnest efficient endeavor shall have dawned all round the world!†
Chpt 14
- It had a nursery, a Thursday evening supper with a short bright missionary lecture afterward, a gymnasium, a fortnightly motion-picture show, a library of technical books for young workmen—though, unfortunately, no young workman ever entered the church except to wash the windows or repair the furnace—and a sewing-circle which made short little pants for the children of the poor while Mrs. Drew read aloud from earnest novels.†
Chpt 16
- Less annoying but also much duller were the minor classes which were being instructed in philosophy and Oriental ethnology by earnest spinsters.†
Chpt 16
- Thus it came to pass that in the Sunday Advocate-Times, under a picture of Dr. Drew at his earnestest, with eyes alert, jaw as granite, and rustic lock flamboyant, appeared an inscription—a wood-pulp tablet conferring twenty-four hours' immortality: The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew, M.A., pastor of the beautiful Chatham Road Presbyterian Church in lovely Floral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner.†
Chpt 17
- While he was trying to be agreeable to large-shouldered young bullies he was earnestly sniffing at them Twice he caught the reek of prohibition-time whisky, but then, it was only twice— Dr. Howard Littlefield lumbered in.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined