duty-bound
morally obliged as a matter of duty
Words Nearby duty-bound
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How to use duty-bound in a sentence
That 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 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was duty-bound, he said, to follow the gospel of helping the least among them.
The Starks are fatalistic, duty-bound, honorable but kind of unsophisticated.
He preaches his message with characteristic urgency, casting himself as a duty-bound martyr.
McLean informed Ivins that she was duty bound to report to the authorities any homicidal threat.
Succor could not arrive, he argued, and they were in duty bound to save the surviving civilians and the women and children.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThen, as in duty bound, I knelt and kissed the hand of the king in token of homage, and he smiled at me contented.
A Prince of Cornwall | Charles W. WhistlerThe world takes it for granted that the wife or paramour of a man of genius is in duty bound to sacrifice herself for him.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksSethos tendered the wine-cup as in duty bound, then stood with hands crossed before him, and looks bent lowly on the earth.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-MelvilleHere he is supposed to have arranged it all, a belief which I vigorously combated as I believed myself in duty bound to do.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835 | Dorothy Duchesse de Dino
Other Idioms and Phrases with duty-bound
Obliged, as in You're duty bound to help your little brother. [c. 1900]
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