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Definition of dutiful in English: dutifuladjective ˈdjuːtɪf(ə)lˈdjuːtɪfʊlˈd(j)udəfəl 1Conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one's duty. 尽职的,尽本分的;恭顺的,顺从的 一位孝女。 Example sentencesExamples - The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- But yet, being the dutiful daughter she was, she did fight their war for them.
- She tells him she will bring him to a home where she will be a faithful and dutiful servant to him, and that if this home reminds him of a home long lost, he should weep for it also.
- Given the contrast, are we to boast that our scribes are more dutiful, intelligent, responsible and wise in contributing to national strength and honour?
- Though striking a blow for Indian womanhood, Sharma remains a dutiful daughter in the traditional mould and still places great faith in arranged marriages.
- It's an unlikely friendship: Andy is dutiful, responsible, endearingly stuffy, but caring and contemplative.
- Those who know him describe him as a dutiful soldier, physically brave, conscientious and honest by local standards - but a man of limited vision.
- I think somewhere you got this notion that a wife was dutiful and obedient.
- Yes folks its that time of year again, whereby as a dutiful parent I oblige my responsibility to dispense with two hours of valuable time to go and watch the Junior School Nativity play.
- As a still dutiful, if mature daughter, she still tried to placate rather than confront.
- Her brother was ever the dutiful doctor, responding to calls that come even in the oddest hour.
- Being the dutiful daughter, I offered them the spare room at my place until they got themselves sorted out.
- ‘The undertaker suggested dutiful or loving daughter,’ David continued.
- Some works are autobiographical, including a piece about a dutiful daughter who forsakes her own happiness to care for her mother.
- Her Punjabi family's traditional ways, and their expectations of a dutiful daughter, alienate her.
- With Mimi he was expected to be neatly groomed, dutiful and obedient.
- In theory, this is done routinely to encourage dutiful submission to authority.
- And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity.
- Here clients, characterized as ‘worthy wives and dutiful daughters,’ are portrayed as grateful and appreciative.
- Vincent was a nice kid - loyal, dutiful and good-humored.
Synonyms conscientious, responsible, dedicated, devoted, faithful, loyal, attentive obedient, compliant, pliant, docile, submissive, biddable, deferential, reverent, reverential, respectful, good, well disciplined, well trained British informal decent rare regardful - 1.1 Motivated by duty rather than desire or enthusiasm.
出于责任感的 礼节性的鼓掌。 一次礼节性的拜访。 Example sentencesExamples - He secured dutiful applause when he told the audience that it had fallen to the present generation to ‘face up to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction’.
- It's a depressing resolution for a heroine: to do the dutiful thing.
- Long before the end the atmosphere had gone from the place, the final whistle greeted by dutiful cheers rather than raw passion.
- We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
- The applause at the mention of his name is dutiful and cheerless.
- Then thirty minutes for evening toilette and small talk, and he and Bertha slipped into bed and dutiful union at 22: 15.
- A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.
- Its clergy, in the main, were neither piously devoted nor scandalously negligent, but were generally dutiful if rather unambitious pastors.
- In this case, he had the unfortunate suspicion that this woman's desire was a dutiful one.
- Those expressions of admiration were not mere dutiful platitudes inspired by the passing of a respected colleague.
- ‘I'll be jumping out of tackles,’ he quips before embarking on a dutiful, almost grudging, acknowledgement of the need to focus on the next match.
- Still, the sides, more dutiful than fervent, were drawn.
Definition of dutiful in US English: dutifuladjectiveˈd(y)o͞odəfəlˈd(j)udəfəl 1Conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one's duty. 尽职的,尽本分的;恭顺的,顺从的 一位孝女。 Example sentencesExamples - I think somewhere you got this notion that a wife was dutiful and obedient.
- Yes folks its that time of year again, whereby as a dutiful parent I oblige my responsibility to dispense with two hours of valuable time to go and watch the Junior School Nativity play.
- Though striking a blow for Indian womanhood, Sharma remains a dutiful daughter in the traditional mould and still places great faith in arranged marriages.
- Vincent was a nice kid - loyal, dutiful and good-humored.
- Here clients, characterized as ‘worthy wives and dutiful daughters,’ are portrayed as grateful and appreciative.
- And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity.
- Given the contrast, are we to boast that our scribes are more dutiful, intelligent, responsible and wise in contributing to national strength and honour?
- ‘The undertaker suggested dutiful or loving daughter,’ David continued.
- With Mimi he was expected to be neatly groomed, dutiful and obedient.
- She tells him she will bring him to a home where she will be a faithful and dutiful servant to him, and that if this home reminds him of a home long lost, he should weep for it also.
- But yet, being the dutiful daughter she was, she did fight their war for them.
- Being the dutiful daughter, I offered them the spare room at my place until they got themselves sorted out.
- It's an unlikely friendship: Andy is dutiful, responsible, endearingly stuffy, but caring and contemplative.
- The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- Some works are autobiographical, including a piece about a dutiful daughter who forsakes her own happiness to care for her mother.
- Her brother was ever the dutiful doctor, responding to calls that come even in the oddest hour.
- As a still dutiful, if mature daughter, she still tried to placate rather than confront.
- In theory, this is done routinely to encourage dutiful submission to authority.
- Her Punjabi family's traditional ways, and their expectations of a dutiful daughter, alienate her.
- Those who know him describe him as a dutiful soldier, physically brave, conscientious and honest by local standards - but a man of limited vision.
Synonyms conscientious, responsible, dedicated, devoted, faithful, loyal, attentive - 1.1 Motivated by duty rather than desire or enthusiasm.
出于责任感的 礼节性的鼓掌。 一次礼节性的拜访。 Example sentencesExamples - The applause at the mention of his name is dutiful and cheerless.
- Those expressions of admiration were not mere dutiful platitudes inspired by the passing of a respected colleague.
- He secured dutiful applause when he told the audience that it had fallen to the present generation to ‘face up to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction’.
- It's a depressing resolution for a heroine: to do the dutiful thing.
- Long before the end the atmosphere had gone from the place, the final whistle greeted by dutiful cheers rather than raw passion.
- Still, the sides, more dutiful than fervent, were drawn.
- A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.
- Its clergy, in the main, were neither piously devoted nor scandalously negligent, but were generally dutiful if rather unambitious pastors.
- We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
- ‘I'll be jumping out of tackles,’ he quips before embarking on a dutiful, almost grudging, acknowledgement of the need to focus on the next match.
- In this case, he had the unfortunate suspicion that this woman's desire was a dutiful one.
- Then thirty minutes for evening toilette and small talk, and he and Bertha slipped into bed and dutiful union at 22: 15.
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