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Meanings of dutiful in английском

Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect;

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        Usage of dutiful in английском
        1
        Let them clear off without having to perform any dutiful morning niceties.
        The Girls
        2
        He always went when invited, and was most dutiful in the counter-calls.
        The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
        3
        Morris made no answer; he was a very dutiful son and humble-spirited.
        Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies
        4
        They are her dutiful subjects like all the inhabitants of the Netherlands.
        History of the United Netherlands, 1587b
        5
        She must have told her father about it, a dutiful Vietnamese daughter.
        The good son: a novel
        6
        His devoted follower never falters in his dutiful imitation of his benefactor.
        The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
        7
        But the former supposition is impracticable, and therefore the latter is dutiful.
        Notes on the Apocalypse
        8
        What started as a dutiful stint of couch-warming became a conscious pleasure.
        The Irish Times
        9
        They are the most dutiful of children, and most affectionate of sisters.
        The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
        10
        Was he a dutiful and respected army officer or a renegade mercenary?
        Wired
        11
        It has proved to me that my children are loving and dutiful.
        The Channings: A Story
        12
        To her, at least, I have not been deficient in dutiful observance.
        Jane Talbot
        13
        The interpretation is, that brown eyes indicate a gentle and dutiful disposition.
        The Life of the Fields
        14
        Lady Winslow and the princess visited Lady Kesseley's bedside like dutiful friends.
        Rakes and radishes
        15
        Endeavours, in her usual dutiful manner, to defend their conduct towards her.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
        16
        Of course the dutiful young man would not fail to do so.
        The Expressman and the Detective
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        Dutiful across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common