unfilial
Example Sentences
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Why, God bless my soul, do you call ingratitude—the basest, most unfilial, most treacherous ingratitude—no vice, sir?
From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.
Wee Andra, having wisely deferred his last shot until his dinner was finished, obeyed his father's injunction with alacrity, and went off to the fields, consumed with unfilial mirth.
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
Once across the border Elizabeth would have no power over her, and her son, unfilial though he hath shown himself, could not for very shame refuse her safe asylum.
From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer
Sempronia so exasperates her father by long-continued unfilial conduct that the latter becomes insane.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
A father could disinherit a son in early times without restriction, but the Code insisted upon judicial consent and that only for repeated unfilial conduct.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
