adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wife
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It indicates her willingness to be the dutiful wife yet refusal to be seen as part of a united couple.
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These dutiful wives will stoke their boilers, fill their tanks to keep them running.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All my life I have been an obedient, dutiful daughter.
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She rejected the traditional female roles of docile daughter and dutiful wife.
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Tom Campbell has been a loyal and dutiful employee of this firm for 25 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the dutiful reader will emerge with an impressively thorough account.
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His wife, dutiful as ever, did as he bade.
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It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations.
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Miss Fergusson, however, remained her dutiful and efficient self.
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Otherwise, it was life as usual, and I was being a dutiful daughter and a good sister.
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The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out.
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Two pairs of hands were missing from the dutiful applause that greeted his speech.