Crossword clues for dutiful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dutiful \Du"ti*ful\, a.
Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
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Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn: Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant. -- Du"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Du"ti*ful*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from duty + -ful. Related: Dutifully.
Wiktionary
a. 1 accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint. 2 Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
WordNet
adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: duteous]
Usage examples of "dutiful".
Miramar, Boman, taking the role of a dutiful disciple, regularly cited Boule as an authority.
Ser Deziel Dalt had once aspired to marry her, but he was much too dutiful to go against his prince.
A chunkily earnest Sean Astin does the dutiful, dog-loyal Sam Gamgee to a turn.
Longwick came first with the kettles, and then Dutiful with the containers of varying sizes.
The other curate is Father Whimble, a decent, quiet, rather stupid dutiful man who does what Charlie tells him, and also worships Father Hobbes.
I enjoy the expectation with which the top is wrenched off the can of worms as if from some amazing birthday present, and then the sense of anticlimax in the watching faces: the forced tears and skimpy, gloating pity, the cued and dutiful applause.
Barbarian, who assured his fellow-soldiers, that, if they dared to associate under his command, they might soon extort the justice which had been denied to their dutiful petitions.
Baptist minister from Texas, Starr was a dutiful, even pious figure, balding, with glasses, a Mister Rogers manner and a reputation for patience.
She owed him a great deal for that and she resolved to try to be a dutiful and untroublesome wife.
Chade and Prince Dutiful and his contingent of nobles and his Witted coterie were all up on the deck, looking on as the ship approached Zylig.
For his feat in returning safely home made him renowned for skill in bushcraft and as a possessor of all the manly qualities, and brought from the other women of the tribe such admiring glances and expressions that his wife never looked again at another man, but remained most faithful and dutiful for fear she should lose him.
Sir Richard Gournay, lord mayor, a man of moderation and authority, had promoted these favorable dispositions, and had engaged the populace, who so lately insulted the king, and who so soon after made furious war upon him, to give him these marks of their dutiful attachment.
He might have been less dutiful had he not known she would have told Ingram Frizer the same as long as whatever men the ruffian killed in the parlor were not themselves tenants of hers.
In fact, as soon as the Imperial authorities had made known their will and taken the immigrants under their protection, the Mikado would be glad to issue a solemn proclamation, releasing all Japanese settlers in the Northern Territory from their dutiful obedience, and commanding them to be loyal subjects of the King.
Pertinax, who modestly represented the meanness of his extraction, and pointed out several noble senators more deserving than himself of the empire, was constrained by their dutiful violence to ascend the throne, and received all the titles of Imperial power, confirmed by the most sincere vows of fidelity.