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

As one researcher puts it: “A high score on conscientious implies strong industriousness, impulse control, dutifulness, sense of organisation, adherence to norms and rules and a preference for order and dependability.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

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

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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