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dutifully

[doo-tuh-flee, dyoo-]

adverb

  1. in a way that is required by moral or legal obligation, societal or cultural expectations, or a person’s position or occupation.

    She dutifully registered to vote and received her ballot.

    The player was stunned by the trade, but he dutifully reported to Cleveland after a decade in the Manhattan limelight.



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Other Word Forms

  • quasi-dutifully adverb
  • undutifully adverb
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For more than two years, a big wooden sign in west Marin County has displayed a set of hand-painted numbers, dutifully changed each morning.

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Maybe they get browned in butter, topped with sour cream and dutifully served next to a kielbasa.

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Despite the capriciousness of Glenn and Rickey’s friendship as they rocket toward Sacramento, Angarano dutifully acknowledges the city’s agreeably slow pace in the film.

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The press dutifully reprinted his empty repetitions of the public health advice from experts.

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All of their songs, whether fully realized or half-baked, were dutifully logged by McCartney into an exercise book he had swiped from school.

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