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
Dutiful Catholic girl that she was raised to be, Sullivan struggles to end her book on a note of gratitude and positivity.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022
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
My earliest reading memory An adult book – Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2020
Dutiful affection was bringing me to town, but undutiful laziness, and being much out of order keep me in the country: however, if alive, I must make my appearance at the birthday....
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
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