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
Fie! naughty, undutiful, cruel, tyrannous, jolly little monster.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
His reign was protracted for over half a century, but his later years were much vexed by the undutiful behaviour of his children.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
It is the story of a rebellious and undutiful child, and illustrates by contrast the unfathomable depth of a father's love, of a love that yearns even over the wicked, over the lost.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
"Or we'll give you to that old man there," pointing with an undutiful finger to the squalid figure of the old miser.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
