as in respectful
marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status
the family showed a dutiful deference to their minister when he came to dinner
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The practice is detailed and dutiful.
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Shawn Simpson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Plus, we dutiful members of Dame Moylan’s Housewives Institute follow the Eileen Davidson Accords and refrain from premature judgment.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
Carrigan plays the dutiful, largely silent family servant in the movie.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Shawn Simpson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Plus, we dutiful members of Dame Moylan’s Housewives Institute follow the Eileen Davidson Accords and refrain from premature judgment.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
Carrigan plays the dutiful, largely silent family servant in the movie.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dutiful
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“Dutiful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dutiful. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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