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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