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
The day that Mr. Smith bestowed the quarter upon his grandson he spoke of his daughter's "dutifulness" to Miss Lydia.
From An Old Chester Secret by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell