beholden

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Or will he be beholden, as folks like James Dobson and Rush Limbaugh insist, to the conservative base?

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  1. adjective Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.

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  • As for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer Republicans to Democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks. —  QandO
  • "In total respect to you and your legendness," Sarah told Babs, "I do not feel beholden or compelled to define my personal relationship ..." —  iVillage - Daily Blabber
  • If $4,500, six years ago - call it $750 a year - makes one "beholden," then you could lease an entire congressional subcommittee for about $25,000 a year. —  Media Blog
  • How beholden are our elected officials to the greedy corporate structure? —  BlueOregon
  • Obama is deliberately attempting to create an economic system where more people live off the government than by their own efforts, thus creating a permanent underclass utterly dependent upon the largesse of the government and therefore ever-beholden to it.
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  1. Middle English biholden, past participle of biholden, to observe; see behold.

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  1. Formerly often erroneously beholding; from Middle English beholden, beholde, properly present participle of behold, v.
 

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