dutiful
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Dutiful Meg paradoxically longs for leisure and fashionable clothes; impetuous Jo yearns for literary fame; shy, music-loving Beth wishes only for everyone to be happy; artistic Amy craves admiration and status.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
He added: "This is a very sad day for the United Kingdom. Dutiful, devoted, and diligent, his like will never be seen again."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2021
Dutiful and long-suffering, she recognizes what a “striving, gutless wonder she’d married,” but she can’t escape.
From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2015
Completing the evening is a return for Paul Taylor's masterly Roses and a revival of the early Alston classic, Dutiful Ducks.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012
Pray give my duty to papa, and accept the same from, dear mamma, Your Dutiful Daughter.
From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen
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