| 单词 | duteous |
| 释义 | duteous (once / 22730 pages) adj To be duteous is to be conscious of your duties and diligent in performing them. A duteous employee gets to work on time, meets every deadline, and never gossips about the boss. A duty is a responsibility or obligation, so to be duteous is to be mindful of one’s duties. A doctor who makes a home visit is duteous. A waiter who is quick and accurate is duteous. Being duteous suggests diligence and respect for the task at hand. In some professions — like being a butler — the whole job is based on being duteous, but you can be duteous in any task you take seriously. WORD FAMILYduteous: duteously+/dutiful: dutifully, dutifulness, undutiful/duty: duteous, dutiable, duties, dutiful/undutiful: undutifully, undutifulness USAGE EXAMPLESRoman piety was the duteous care of one's relatives. Elliott, Maud Howe, Julia Ward Howe—1819-1910(2012) Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all. Various, Legal Lore—Curiosities of Law and L...(2012) She burst out into a fit of laughter at my duteous principles. Cavendish, Georgiana, The Sylph, Volume I and II(2012) adj willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife Syn dutiful obedient dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority |
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