Example sentences for: dutiful

How can you use “dutiful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the New York Times Book Review Thomas Mallon faults Lidie Newton for "dutiful caricatures of white degeneracy and black nobility ...

  • Next, the wackiness of the concept or word itself, whose dutiful definition cannot fail to provoke a gasp of comic disbelief--wackiness often being in direct proportion to rudeness.

  • Al Gore Jr. has outdone his senator father in the calculus of political achievement, but the veep is stiff and awkward and dutiful in a way that his impulsive, backslappy dad never was.

  • Usually in the pop-academic genre, the pop side will be interesting and the academic side dutiful and obscure.

  • The Post fronts a biographical piece about young Al Gore, painting him as inordinately cautious, responsible, competitive, perfectionistic, dutiful.


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