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Definition of duteous in English: duteousadjective ˈdjuːtɪəsˈd(j)udiəs archaic Dutiful. 〈古〉尽职的；顺从的 一位尽职的封臣。 Example sentencesExamples - She is ever duteous when addressing them, but betrays her true character to the audience.
- It is true that the majority physicians are duteous to their patients.
- Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate Upon your grace [to the queen], but with all duteous love Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me With hate in those where I expect most love!
- Everything was changing its aspect: her husband's conduct, her own duteous feeling towards him, every struggle between them - and yet more, her whole relation to him.
Synonyms compliant, yielding, malleable, acquiescent, accommodating, amenable, tractable, manageable, unassertive, non-resisting, passive, obedient, biddable, dutiful, docile, ductile, pliant, meek, timid, mild, patient, resigned, forbearing, subdued, humble, self-effacing, spiritless, deferential, obsequious, servile, slavish, self-abasing, spineless, grovelling, lamblike, supine
Derivativesadverb archaic Patches of skin and blood were found on various living room walls and the cops had duteously sent several wallpaper swatches to the crime lab, skin and blood intact. Example sentencesExamples - Secondly, the sex scenes are mostly implied, which is a welcome break for everyone tired of sitting duteously in darkened theatres through in-your-face sex to the last gasp, waiting for the time when films once again celebrate subtleties and the gift of imagination.
- This approach, in which Mainland China makes the judgment and Hong Kong duteously follows, highlights the most dangerous aspect of the proposed law.
- He emptied the compartments duteously, packed the unsold goods in large canvas sacks, tidying them away behind the two bottom doors of his cart.
- And yet we are wont to date our birth, as that of the babes we christen, from the body's advent, so duteously inscribed in our family registers, as if time and space could chronicle the periods of the immortal mind, and mark its longevity by our chronometers.
noun archaic To that extent, the duteousness and passivity implied by the Protestant work ethic are truly dead. Example sentencesExamples - Surveillance is, plenty simply, the reaction of vigil people, objects or processes for duteousness to exact expected norms.
- He has a character for his piousness, duteousness, and opposability and receives many clients I trust.
- Is love the ultimate essential factor in a marriage, or is it the duteousness and fidelity?
- Sonnet 10 serves four functions: ‘a tribute to an uncorrupted public official, a tribute to friendship with a woman,… an endorsement of civil duteousness in the person of Isocrates,’ and an attack on a corrupt public official.
OriginLate 16th century: from duty, on the pattern of words such as bounteous. Definition of duteous in US English: duteousadjectiveˈd(y)o͞odēəsˈd(j)udiəs archaic Dutiful. 〈古〉尽职的；顺从的 一位尽职的封臣。 Example sentencesExamples - She is ever duteous when addressing them, but betrays her true character to the audience.
- It is true that the majority physicians are duteous to their patients.
- Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate Upon your grace [to the queen], but with all duteous love Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me With hate in those where I expect most love!
- Everything was changing its aspect: her husband's conduct, her own duteous feeling towards him, every struggle between them - and yet more, her whole relation to him.
Synonyms compliant, yielding, malleable, acquiescent, accommodating, amenable, tractable, manageable, unassertive, non-resisting, passive, obedient, biddable, dutiful, docile, ductile, pliant, meek, timid, mild, patient, resigned, forbearing, subdued, humble, self-effacing, spiritless, deferential, obsequious, servile, slavish, self-abasing, spineless, grovelling, lamblike, supine
OriginLate 16th century: from duty, on the pattern of words such as bounteous. |