duty-bound
Example Sentences
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To Williams, it hinted at a more menacing scenario — at secret ties between those who threaten the rule of the law and those duty-bound to enforce it.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025
Sometimes, a patient makes an unconventional choice, but if the patient is competent and the request is fundamentally reasonable, the physician is duty-bound to comply.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
We tried to be faithful to that, not out of duty-bound sense but because it helped to create the feeling of actual humans watching/recording/present at all times.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Simon Baker KC, representing the Post Office, said while the company was duty-bound to investigate the case based on evidence available at the time, the case "amounts to an abuse of process".
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
Then, suddenly, with one of her most audible sighs, she stood up and, grim and duty-bound, moved into the washstand area Zooey had vacated.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
