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synonyms for dutiful

  • conscientious
  • binding
  • compliant
  • deferential
  • devoted
  • docile
  • duteous
  • faithful
  • incumbent on
  • obligatory
  • punctilious
  • regardful
  • respectful
  • reverential
  • submissive
See also synonyms for: dutifully / undutiful
On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dutiful, such as: conscientious, binding, compliant, deferential, devoted, and docile.

antonyms for dutiful

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  • betraying
  • disobedient
  • faithless
  • irresponsible
  • undutiful
  • unfaithful
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How to use dutiful in a sentence

First and foremost, our identification is imprinted upon Moore’s character, Cathy Whitaker, a housewife living within a picture-perfect existence as an ideal and dutiful homemaker.
‘FAR FROM HEAVEN’ STILL PACKS A PUNCH 20 YEARS LATERJOHN PAUL KINGNOVEMBER 10, 2022WASHINGTON BLADE
The look wasn’t indulgent or even dutiful, it was polite verging on dismissive.
A CLENCHED FIST AND AN OPEN HAND: LESSONS LEARNED FROM DESMOND TUTUBONODECEMBER 31, 2021TIME
It is my first memory of my mother, a dutiful military wife of the era, openly staking out a position opposing my father.
HOW A 12-YEAR-OLD BILLIE JEAN KING DECIDED TO CHANGE THE WORLDLIZ CLARKEAUGUST 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Toni Collette is Marina, the dutiful, focused captain of a ship headed to Mars.
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It is dutiful for some to give themselves to the work of the ministry, and to vow to do its duties; but not dutiful for all.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
To the greatest extent of the capacities of all, it is dutiful for them to obtain and distribute copies of the blessed word.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
Was it dutiful for the priests to read it to the people of Israel assembled at their solemn feasts?
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
Was it dutiful to make use of one copy of the law for instructing the people, when only one could be obtained?
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
It is dutiful for all who have the whole word of God, to use every lawful means in their power to make others know it.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
Accordingly, a Covenant engagement, in which there is promised more than what is dutiful, is not lawful.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO DUTIFUL

  • civil
  • complaisant
  • courteous
  • disarming
  • duteous
  • dutiful
  • ingratiating
  • ingratiatory
  • insinuating
  • insinuative
  • obedient
  • obeisant
  • obsequious
  • polite
  • regardful
  • reverential
  • saccharine
  • silken
  • silky
  • submissive
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.