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
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 first time you hear Keith's mother do so is when she is feeding her chickens and addressing them in a parody of wifely dutifulness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
But with a sense of more human dutifulness, Perry recalled his residuum of perception.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
