dutifulness
Example Sentences
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It’s a mystery that won’t be probed by director Bernard MacMahon and co-writer Allison McGourty, who tick off the usual gigs and recording anecdotes on the rise to fame with a then-this-happened dutifulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
Early in their lives, her elder sister had cornered the market in dutifulness, surrounding herself with the tweedy and the trusty.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2017
She follows him around with a desperate dutifulness, and he does his best to sideline her during their meeting with Dennis.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2015
In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities—the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward—and their mores.
From Economist • Dec. 17, 2014
Very well, but if they stimulate us to some virtue—for example, self-denial, dutifulness, order, thrift, measure, and moderation—let us listen to them, whatever their epithets may be!
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
