undutiful
Example Sentences
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“Mr. Drummle,” said Mrs. Pocket, “will you ring for Flopson? Jane, you undutiful little thing, go and lie down. Now, baby darling, come with ma!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The imprisoned Shah Jehan exclaimed in his wrath that he would break all his gems to atoms sooner than let his undutiful son touch one of them.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard
And this undutiful parent and callous husband caught up his daughter on his shoulder and carried her, shrieking joyfully, to the nursery.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
Most men would cast off a son for a tenth of the undutiful conduct Roland has shown towards me; but I waive that.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
"Have you been trammelled with an undutiful son?"
From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
