duteous
adjective
dutiful; obedient.
duteously
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a word derived from
duteous.
Example Sentences
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The minister and his wife were as sincerely, duteously courteous.
From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler
As Antonio was duteously pacing by the side of his instructor, he would often catch a glimpse of the daughter, walking pensively about the alleys in the soft twilight.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
To please her he duteously obeyed Hemingway's fastidious instructions as to habiliments.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
Many are ashamed of it even while duteously confessing it, and gabble over the sentences in their creed which acknowledge it in a very perfunctory manner.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
Here he is, wandering alone, waiting duteously on Nature, while she unfolds a page of stern, of silent, and of solemn poetry beneath his attentive gaze.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
