The phrase "an earnestly" is not correct in written English.
It is incorrect because "earnestly" is an adverb and should not be preceded by "an," which is an article used for nouns.
Example: "She spoke earnestly about her concerns during the meeting."
Alternatives: "a sincere" or "a serious".
There, it was altogether jokier; here it's got an earnestly efficient cool.
The show goes in for an earnestly antic pox-on-both-your-houses style, and so does the primer.
No one would mistake it for a well-wrought drama, but it's an earnestly giddy outburst of imaginative frenzy.
And just for good measure, someone would take out 20 full-page ads in an earnestly well-meaning daily newspaper.
He looks and feels awful, but he responds to bad news as a comic, by mocking the German accent of an earnestly helpful doctor.
Item No. UNRN1001 at the Yiwu Unnar Jewelry Design Company is an earnestly faithful recreation of a familiar mound of blue and white gems on a metal band.
He was--and remains--an earnestly pleasant guy whose 140-m.p.h.
Struck by the village's proletarian character, Domenico Mortellito, the W.P.A. artist, painted a dozen cartoonlike scenes of workers — big-muscled men loading cargo, a baker ramming loaves into an oven, a teacher earnestly turning a globe.
This week, I was a guest on a talk-radio show when a caller earnestly tried to convince me that McGlockton's push justified deadly force.
What is the anatomy of a genuine apology, and how can a person earnestly demonstrate doing the work?
She's not going to be a sex kitten, she's not going to come out in cutoff shorts and a tank top, and it's going to be a real earnestly drawn character".
