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

My beloved Cartwright! what mean you?" exclaimed his affectionate wife, following him to the window, and gently attempting to withdraw the cambric that concealed his features: "what can that undutiful boy mean?

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

"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 Weyman, Stanley J.

Let's have no more harping on that string, and no more silly and undutiful speeches.

From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

He proved, too, an intractable and undutiful son; but that was the result to be expected, and we cannot join Thackeray in his sentimental snivel over George the Third.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)