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UK
/djˈuːtɪfəl/
]
[ US /ˈdutifəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈdutifəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
a dutiful child
a dutiful citizen
Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife
How To Use dutiful In A Sentence
- A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
- In his relations with his commercial agent a principal must act dutifully and in good faith.
- But dutifully stenographed Greg, as always, with enough practice you might become a fax machine. Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them"
- Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
- Suddenly I perceived him as Dutiful did, and realized that the Prince's abhorrence went past the man's physical deformity and mental limits. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Thus, each outlay of dutiful public "support" was eventually marred by some tactless remark or hint of encouragement to an outraged bitter-ender that, if only they kept faith, there might still be a way. Hillary Goes Out With a Whimper
- And that dutiful son of mine over there. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
- In recognition of his dutiful service, Ortega had been rewarded the post of Colombian governor.
- We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
- He is momentously disorganized, and is thus kept somewhat together -- and wearing pants -- thanks to the dutiful efforts of his friends and wife. MIND MELD: The Future of Star Wars