dutiful
IPA: dˈutifʌɫ
adjective
- Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
- Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
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Examples of "dutiful" in Sentences
- A man who his clansmen call dutiful, and his neighbours call modest.
- And little duties make the will dutiful, that is, supple and prompt to obey.
- What children expect of parents in dutiful bounty but a friendly co-operation.
- The Master said: To-day a man is called dutiful if he keep his father and mother.
- He is dutiful, which is good, but he is not exactly inspired, which is why I look forward to summer for him.
- The editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is in dutiful attendance after controversially cutting her time short at the previous collections.
- I believe, too, that since the time — ten years earlier — when she had recalled her dutiful son Peter from the service, she had wholly changed her mode of living.
- I believe, too, that since the time -- ten years earlier -- when she had recalled her dutiful son Peter from the service, she had wholly changed her mode of living.
- So probably one who accepts (CP) does so in a way that violates (CP); (CP) lays down a condition for being justified, dutiful, which is such that one who accepts it probably violates it.
- Like Mr. Hiller, Mr. O'Shea came from the Chicago Tribune, where he had been managing editor and had been known as a dutiful manager of the shrinking budgets plaguing all newspapers today.
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