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"both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"adjectivecharacterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
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adjectivenot distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
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adjectivesincerely earnest
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nounsomething of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
Examples of earnest
- "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"