Definition of "dutiful" []

• Careful to fulfill obligations. (adjective)
• Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation. (adjective)

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• "The editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is in dutiful attendance after controversially cutting her time short at the previous collections."
• "What children expect of parents in dutiful bounty but a friendly co-operation."
• "Like Mr. Hiller, Mr. O'Shea came from the Chicago Tribune, where he had been managing editor and had been known as a dutiful manager of the shrinking budgets plaguing all newspapers today."