dutiful
pronunciation
How to pronounce dutiful in British English:
UK [ˈdju:tɪfl]
How to pronounce dutiful in American English:
US [ˈdutɪfl]
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- Adjective:
- willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
Word Origin
- dutiful (adj.)
- 1550s, from duty + -ful. Related: Dutifully.
Example
- 1. Other emerging market countries would be under similar , dutiful watch .
- 2. He arrived in office certain that whitehall was the dutiful rolls-royce of legend .
- 3. Working in m & a on the banking side is intrinsically uninteresting all that dutiful diligence and the only people interested are there for the money .
- 4. At an election tour in the southern state of kerala , crowds of communists are putting on a dutiful show of support .