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Recent Examples of duteous
Lord John and Claire check up on Henry (Harry Jarvis), who is doing very well, thanks to Mercy’s (Gloria Obianyo) duteous care.
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Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years.
—John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017
Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
The administrator in him favors the long view; the duteous building of a team over the course of years.
—John Altavilla, courant.com, 12 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duteous
Adjective
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The poem contrasts this process with dutiful, dry record-keeping, which is more faithful to what’s known but evokes less of what’s not.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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And in this rote, dutiful steadiness, I was struck by the patient sincerity of it all—and by a sense that these believers were already fomenting, in admittedly small numbers, the kind of unity that Esperanto’s skeptics say the language could never help facilitate.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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The new hire was Mike Brown, a funny, amiable man, who, at least outwardly, looks to have a converse personality to Thibodeau.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2026
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Further, Lewis was fun to be around, amiable and thoughtful, maybe candid to a fault.—
John Shipley,
Twin Cities,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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The room gets more agreeable and less capable at the same time, and almost no one notices, because agreeable feels like progress.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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That April, OpenAI also rolled back an update to ChatGPT that the company said made the GPT-4o model overly flattering and agreeable, known as sycophancy.—
Lauren Fichten,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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These stories usually involve a woman shucking societal norms of being nice, pretty, and obedient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That amendment had been made a dead letter by Jim Crow state legislatures and an acquiescent Supreme Court.—
Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Perhaps it could be argued that Freiburg were obliging opponents.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Rarely does another forward group make Colorado look slow, but Minnesota seemed to delight in obliging.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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In this era of growing labor radicalism and open conflict with capital, Taylor promised docile and happy workers alongside high profits.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
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This harmless, doll-like look juxtaposed with the anger running through their punk discographies and unruly performances was meant to subvert the expectations of women as docile objects in the patriarchy.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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Harry Melling stars as a young introvert who meets an older biker (Alexander Skarsgård) and becomes his submissive.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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Participants will gain skills to develop mutual trust, respect, and mindfulness between Dominant and submissive.—
Rachel del Guidice,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
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“Duteous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duteous. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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