0 doing everything that you should do: --
1 (of a person) obedient or (of an action) done because it is necessary or expected: --
a dutiful child
It is more than a dutiful comment to say that this has been an extremely interesting debate.
We were invited to keep off the grass and, like loyal and dutiful subjects, we kept off the grass.
We know what is bound to happen unless the son is extremely dutiful.
We never forget that electricity is a means to an end; that, while it is invaluable, yet it is a dutiful servant.
Global solidarity and concrete assistance, generously provided, are the right and dutiful response of the international community.
The book is dutiful and somewhat plodding.
The sculpture is paid dutiful but scant attention in the many encomiums dedicated to the building.
He makes some insightful points that a dutiful reviewer would otherwise have made.
