duty bound
Speech parts
1. duty bound - Adjective
2. duty bound - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
under a moral obligation to do something
Source: WordNetAlternative names
duty-bound
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Examples
After formally receiving each guest in this fashion, the receiving line is finished and the people who had been duty-bound to stand in it can mingle with guests, eat, and enjoy more extended conversations.
By 1790 Haydn was in the paradoxical, if not bizarre, position of being Europe's leading composer, but someone who spent his time as a duty-bound Kapellmeister in a remote palace in the Hungarian countryside.
In the letter, which was written on October 5, Akbar had said Priti Patel is “duty-bound” to deport the former prime minister, so he can serve his jail sentence for corruption.
PS: I feel duty-bound to have some sarcasm on sarcasm off html tag for Amanuel because he is so literal.
The Army and the Police could easily be convinced not to perform duties in accordance with their duty-bound impartial and professional behavior.
He disclosed that the dedicated health worker and Biomedical Scientist traveled duty-bound on the Power Tools bus from Solwezi that plunged into the Kabompo River on 2nd May 2020.