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- proper noun A male
given name , an occasional spelling variant ofErnest .
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Earnest is code for stuffy, predictable, boring - the very things Stewart is supposed to be against.
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Earnest is code for stuffy, predictable, boring - the very things Stewart is supposed to be against.
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Earnest is code for stuffy, predictable, boring - the very things Stewart is supposed to be against.
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And her skill: her Mainstage Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is brisk and articulate, fresh and spontaneous.
James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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And her skill: her Mainstage Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is brisk and articulate, fresh and spontaneous.
James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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Emmanuel Acho, Dustin Earnest and Keenan Robinson will play bigger roles.
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It goes without saying that Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is nothing without his words and wit.
Play on Words 2009
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Earnest is credited with the theory of recapitulation, the idea that we all go through the evolutionary stages as embryos, "the fish stage" may ring a bell.
Weblogs 2009
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And her skill: her Mainstage Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is brisk and articulate, fresh and spontaneous.
James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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And her skill: her Mainstage Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is brisk and articulate, fresh and spontaneous.
James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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