Dutiful and Honorable

Dutiful

Dutiful adjective - Marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status.

Honorable and dutiful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Honorable" instead an adjective "Dutiful".

Nearby Word: dutifully

Honorable

Honorable adjective - Guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong.
Usage example: I believe that if I genuinely cannot decide fairly, I should do the honorable thing and decline to serve on the panel

Dutiful and honorable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dutiful" instead an adjective "Honorable".

Nearby Words: honor, honour, honourable, honored, honoured

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Endless Sky The Fettered: The Republic Navy is shown as a dutiful and honorable institution, filled with upstanding leaders who keep their word and treat their enemies with respect.
  • Web Animation / If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device Lion El'jonson: invokedConfusingly both a self-absorbed, spiteful, envious prick and an honorable, courageous, and dutiful warrior at the same time.
  • Literature / Horatio Hornblower Byronic Hero: Hornblower is an honorable, dutiful, and humble man who acts with great courage under fire.
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