Dutiful Definition

Dutiful Sentence Examples

• The ant, methodical and dutiful, planned and worked to have enough food for the winter.

• The children, too, he put in mind of going often to church, and taught them to be obedient and dutiful to their parents.

• He was a learned, though not a scientific lawyer, a faithful political adherent, thoroughly honest as a judge, dutiful and happy as a husband.

• He comes across as a very dutiful, law-abiding citizen with the best interests of his traveling passengers at heart.

• One of his first acts was to persuade the senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused; this gained him the title of Pius (dutiful in affection).