dutiful
adjective
performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful child.
dutifulness
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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
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
The first time you hear Keith's mother do so is when she is feeding her chickens and addressing them in a parody of wifely dutifulness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
After dinner the bride was again urged to get up, but maidenly modesty and her dutifulness to her parents still forbade her to obey.
From Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women by Anna Magdalena Johannsen
