Vocabulary Word
Word: beholden
Definition: obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude
Definition: obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude
Sentences Containing 'beholden'
Don Quixote asked her name in order that he might from that time forward know to whom he was beholden for the favour he had received, as he meant to confer upon her some portion of the honour he acquired by the might of his arm.
I am thankful for myself, at any rate, that I can find my tiny way through the world, without being beholden to anyone; and that in return for all that is thrown at me, in folly or vanity, as I go along, I can throw bubbles back.
Colville noted, in respect of Suez, that Eden and his Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd "felt still more beholden to the French on account of this offer".
They also say that deciding tax increases in referendums is more democratic, as legislators may be beholden to Lobby groups, special interests and lobbyists.
So it had to be a private enterprise beholden to its clients."
