P. J. Harvey

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

British Musician

Queen Elizabeth II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

English Royalty

Lynn Coady

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

Canadian Novelist

Namrata Shirodkar

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

Indian Actress

Mellody Hobson

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

American Businessman

Hilton Als

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

American Writer

William Cobbett

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

English Politician

Rod Taylor

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

Australian Actor

Emily Watson

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

English Actress

Jonathan Mayhew

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

American Clergyman

Use 'dutiful' to describe actions that perfectly meet what is expected, especially in traditional roles.

Expectation Fulfillment

'Dutiful' often implies positive moral qualities like responsibility and reliability.

Positive Connotation

Being dutiful suggests normal, expected behavior, not going above and beyond.

Not Heroic

Use 'dutiful' when someone is showing a strong sense of respect towards authority.

Authority Respect

'Dutiful' can imply a lower rank or position, following orders without question.

Subordination Implication

In military contexts, 'dutiful' emphasizes loyalty and adherence to military discipline.

Military Usage

 another pilot had gone by and seen the airplane and asked if it was Air Force One and the controller dutifully said no sir it's a Gulfstream type aircraft well to say that we all missed the heartbeat is an understatement because all we needed was that civilian pilot to say so that's not a Gulfstream

Bush's Secret Visit to...

 program for clubfoot we realized that the doctors are not able to give the right treatment because of the non availability of the special shoe so we thought we should manufacture it locally make it available free of cost to these children Oh be a dutiful I know cool to Kiba

For Children With...

 dutifully took his clipboard and walked down to this housing project, gets to the first building. The first building? Well, there's nobody there. But he hears some voices up in the stairwell, so he climbs up the stairwell, comes around the corner,

The freakonomics of...

 So you do the dutiful thing as a friend, and you ask for details. And they tell you a story about what happened to them at the gym or at work or on their date last night. And you listen and you try to understand why they're so mad.

Why we get mad -- and...

 for the very first time, furnishing the yardstick of the universe. Meanwhile, a dutiful teenage boy in the Midwest was repressing his childhood love of astronomy and beginning his legal studies to fulfill his dying father's demand

Humanity's Search for...

 And these bees, dutifully helping lonely plants have sex, aren't alone. But rather are part of a very complex network of matchmaking creatures, critical for the pollination of natural ecosystems and crops.

How bees help plants...

 Adjusting her disguise, Zhu Yingtai prepared to bid her parents goodbye. She had always been a dutiful daughter— staying home and creating works of embroidery that brought her parents pride.

The Chinese legend of...

 that will allow it to live another day. It wants only to be here tomorrow, dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt, nose pressed against the page, writing a few more dutiful lines

Billy Collins: Everyday...

 Unbeknownst to them, two younger brothers, the third and fourth of the five Akune boys, were serving dutifully in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Saburo in the Naval Airforce,

The Akune brothers:...

 This excavation work will flood his own nursery or act as an escape route. In such circumstances, a dutiful father is key to survival.

Dutiful

Doing what is expected or required.

Often appears as...

Showing respect and obedience to someone in a position of authority.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Expectation Fulfillment

Positive Connotation

Not Heroic

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