dutifulness
- a word derived from dutiful.
Example Sentences
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It’s a mystery that won’t be probed by director Bernard MacMahon and co-writer Allison McGourty, who tick off the usual gigs and recording anecdotes on the rise to fame with a then-this-happened dutifulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
As one researcher puts it: “A high score on conscientious implies strong industriousness, impulse control, dutifulness, sense of organisation, adherence to norms and rules and a preference for order and dependability.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019
She follows him around with a desperate dutifulness, and he does his best to sideline her during their meeting with Dennis.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2015
In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities—the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward—and their mores.
From Economist ● Dec. 17, 2014
In their opinion the goal can be reached, or at least steadily approached, by simple dutifulness in conduct, without any aid from other motives that should tend to our salvation.
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah
