Dutiful

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  • adjective. Careful to fulfill obligations.
  • adjective. Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Performing the duties required by social or legal obligations; obedient; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obediently respectful: as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
  • Expressive of a sense of duty; showing compliant respect; required by duty: as, dutiful attentions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors
  • adjective. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
  • adjective. Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect
  • Word Usage
    "The editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is in dutiful attendance after controversially cutting her time short at the previous collections."
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    obedient  
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