Synonyms for be in earnest
be in earnest

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1. be in earnest

   Synonyms:
   be serious, be not jesting

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1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Life is real; Life is earnest; And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

2. Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek:

   The EU is currently doing the impact analysis, and we are doing the impact analysis, and we're hoping that at the latest some time in the beginning of 2017 negotiations could start in earnest.

3. Arthur DelaCruz:

   I think that in earnest they are trying to correct, but we can still do better in pushing to ensure these recoveries are equitable.

4. Reinhold Niebuhr:

   All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

5. David Cohen:

   Institutions first started opening their back doors( releasing long-term residents) around the mid-1950s, then starting to close their front doors( admitting fewer people, especially for longer stays, and reducing the number of available beds within institutions) starting around the late 1960s and the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, then shutting down in earnest from the mid-1980s onward.