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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Early in their lives, her elder sister had cornered the market in dutifulness, surrounding herself with the tweedy and the trusty.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2017
Cox masterfully captures Churchill’s contradictory nature, obsessive dutifulness to queen and country, and a volatility born out of fear, desperation and impending loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
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
If he could thus begin to atone for his want of dutifulness towards his son.
From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel
