dutiful
adjective C1- Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint. · Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.
- Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
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“And I as a dutiful son, as they choose that I shall be descended from you.”
Close to him, dressed in entirely new clothes, advanced smilingly Count Andrea Cavalcanti, the dutiful son, whom we also know.
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