dutifulness
Example Sentences
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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
Cox masterfully captures Churchill’s contradictory nature, obsessive dutifulness to queen and country, and a volatility born out of fear, desperation and impending loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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
She was a child of great dutifulness to her parents, and of a very sweet, humble nature; and not only the truth, but the power and eminence of religion did shine in her.
From Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour A Token for Children by James Janeway
