Synonyms for obliged
obliged

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1. duty-bound(p), obliged(p)adjective

   under a moral obligation to do something

   Antonyms:
   unobligated

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1. List of paraphrases for "obliged":

   forced, compelled, bound, obligated, required, held, obligation, grateful, duty-bound, kept, duty, coerced, compulsory

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1. Samuel Johnson:

   I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

2. Ahmed Ismail:

   In addition to strengthening investors' confidence with the local market, the new law will raise the value of the debtors' assets, since they will not be obliged to sell for low prices through an enforced liquidation, the realized value of the last three auctions was at 30 percent of market value in a normal buyer-and-seller market, which would have significantly jeopardized the recovery ratio for all creditors.

3. Indiana Jones:

   I feel obliged to make sure that our efforts are as ambitious as they were when we started.

4. Richard Howitt:

   This is about Yemen. The human rights violations have reached a level that means Europe is obliged to act and to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

5. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone:

   We had declared ourselves willing to step in for Nuerburgring, something we were contractually not obliged to do, there were talks with third parties over taking over the risk but they were not successful.