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beholden
/ bɪˈhəʊldən /
adjective
- indebted; obliged; under a moral obligation
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- unbe·holden adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beholden1
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Example Sentences
Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.
Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors.
As a company that is beholden to stockholders, Kate Spade usually lags, not leads trends.
Its members would not be beholden to any special interest groups, at all, for their selection.
Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.
We are not beholden to, thee for anything, for thy debt is paid to thee to the full; which methinks were very bold words.
Maybe that was why—though he may not have admitted it to himself—he could not bear to be beholden to her when his ruin came.
These confederates of his had one thing in common, however; all of them were beholden to Raymond Latour.
Because,” said I, “it is not proper that I be beholden to you for meat and drink.
We and the Surgeons are more beholden to Women than all the Professions besides.
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