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Example sentences from the Web for duty-boundThat we know Earp not as a confidence man but as a duty-bound law officer was his most enduring and successful confidence game. The Wyatt Earp Myth: America’s Most Famous Vigilante Wasn’t|Andrew C. Isenberg|July 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST He was duty-bound, he said, to follow the gospel of helping the least among them. What Catholics Think of Pope Francis|Ilana Glazer|March 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST The Starks are fatalistic, duty-bound, honorable but kind of unsophisticated. Who Represents?|Megan McArdle|February 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST He preaches his message with characteristic urgency, casting himself as a duty-bound martyr. The Next Oprah?|McKay Coppins|September 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Old Marster fooled us to believe we was duty-bound to stay with him till we was all twenty-one. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves|Work Projects Administration As a rule, parents think themselves in duty-bound to take their boys to the seaside for these holidays. John Bull, Junior|Max O'Rell But to everything Pan Stanislav answered: “A fish, a duty-bound fish.” Children of the Soil|Henryk Sienkiewicz
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adjectivemorally obliged as a matter of duty Words nearby duty-boundduteous, dutiable, dutiful, Dutton, duty, duty-bound, duty-free, duty-free shop, duty officer, duty to retreat, duumvir Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with duty-bound
Obliged, as in You're duty bound to help your little brother. [c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to duty-boundappreciative, obliged, thankful, beholden, grateful, obligated, indebted, compelled, enslaved, pledged, guilty, answerable, important, liable, culpable, subject, constrained, restrained, forced, indentured |