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dutiful
adjective as in obedient
Example Sentences
From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.
There have been a lot of dutiful, fact-check-style responses pointing out that Superman is an immigrant and the character was always “woke,” in that he has a history of fighting fascists and KKK members.
Jeffrey Wright, an Emmy winner for “Angels in America” in 2004, channeled the Washington, D.C., world he grew up in to create a portrait of a dutiful government employee.
Just as Charles was once held up as the antagonist against his beloved ex-wife Diana, Meghan has been cast as the inevitable adversary of dutiful and popular Princess Kate.
Watching Bean’s dutiful lord be torn apart, body and reputation, by a nest of vipers is an altogether different experience.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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