Wondering how to use Dutiful in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as obedient.
Dutiful meaning
- Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
- Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
Synonyms of Dutiful
Using Dutiful
- The main meaning on this page is: Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint. | Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
- Useful related words include: duteous, obedient.
- In the example corpus, dutiful often appears in combinations such as: is dutiful, the dutiful, dutiful and.
Context around Dutiful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dutiful
- In this selection, "dutiful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, simply, lives, snappy, wife, buddy and soldiers stand out and add context to how "dutiful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include always a dutiful buddy snoopy and as snappy dutiful and necessarily. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dutiful" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dutiful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As long as they are dutiful soldiers the money and support is unlimited. (13 words)
Here was an opportunity, he muses, for something more dignified, more dutiful even. (13 words)
Rosemary is ready to settle down and become a dutiful wife and mother. (13 words)
When Netflix revealed about the movie: "A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. (32 words)
She has diligently done her utmost to be a dutiful steward and devoted conduit, giving all the blessings received to those who are the most vulnerable, the most in need. (30 words)
The statement stressed that helping Syria in rescuing those affected by the earthquake is dutiful, hailing the countries which challenged the political siege and rushed to aid the Syrians. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Always a dutiful buddy, Snoopy gets the leaf off Woodstock, contemplating the novel fear of falling leaves.
As long as they are dutiful soldiers the money and support is unlimited.
Here was an opportunity, he muses, for something more dignified, more dutiful even.
Jimmy Kimmel and the presenters were as dutiful and cautious as executives at a shareholders’ meeting.
There are never any complaints – simply dutiful and honest service throughout its decades of passive industry for countless families.
The statement stressed that helping Syria in rescuing those affected by the earthquake is dutiful, hailing the countries which challenged the political siege and rushed to aid the Syrians.
When Netflix revealed about the movie: "A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt.
When the Americans dropped leaflets over Nagasaki and then Hiroshima warning residents to evacuate to save their lives, dutiful Japanese minders scooped them up and burned them.
Being a dutiful Latter-day Saint — the church was the reason he immigrated to Utah — Nils did as he was asked and headed north.
Cohen’s portrayal of Mary in this overblown, New Age retelling of her story wavers between dutiful, courageous and winsome.
Glimpsed in brief, her music comes across as snappy, dutiful and necessarily muted, each melody just memorable enough to register without pulling our focus from Cooper.
Instead, he is a dutiful deputy of the police who is so unbearably square it will only elicit titters.
Ranbir who is a dutiful son is seen helping her mom arrange groceries and helps her out in day-to-day chores.
She has diligently done her utmost to be a dutiful steward and devoted conduit, giving all the blessings received to those who are the most vulnerable, the most in need.
The 1975 TV series "Wonder Woman" is deeply beloved by dutiful Gen-Xers who watched it as children.
The more dutiful Edward was dead in 1902 of a bad oyster, and stands unfinished on canvas.
Discrimination is highly targeted towards women as, more often than not, young women are expected to abide by the unspoken rules of traditional, dutiful housewives.
Instead, she pretends to live the boring life of a dutiful wife, which is, perhaps, the perfect cover for a mind as warped as hers.
Now that Shinzo,s master declared a national emergency in the US lets see how long before the dutiful servant follows suit.
Rosemary is ready to settle down and become a dutiful wife and mother.
Common combinations with dutiful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is dutiful 6×
- the dutiful 5×
- dutiful and 4×
- and dutiful 4×
- as dutiful 3×
- of dutiful 3×
- more dutiful 2×
- dutiful son 2×
- be dutiful 2×
- dutiful wife 2×