as in respectful
marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status
the family showed a dutiful deference to their minister when he came to dinner
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Ralph Fiennes does most of the heavy lifting here, playing Cardinal Lawrence, a dutiful and doubting man overseeing the vote for the next pope.
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Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
Ever the dutiful student, Swift follows all the parameters of the assignment, yet moves like rhyming wanted with wanted come off as rookie mistakes.
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—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
But Denis’s new film was about an aging Black train conductor living on the outskirts of Paris, who gently pressures his too dutiful daughter to leave their apartment and live her own life.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
Ralph Fiennes does most of the heavy lifting, playing a dutiful and doubting man overseeing the vote.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
Ever the dutiful student, Swift follows all the parameters of the assignment, yet moves like rhyming wanted with wanted come off as rookie mistakes.
233.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
But Denis’s new film was about an aging Black train conductor living on the outskirts of Paris, who gently pressures his too dutiful daughter to leave their apartment and live her own life.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
Ralph Fiennes does most of the heavy lifting, playing a dutiful and doubting man overseeing the vote.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Dutiful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dutiful. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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