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
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 Ian Hay
This was undutiful, but certainly not more so than shouting "You, Dennis!" at him down the whole length of an uproarious dinner-table.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then how are they gone this morning?—those undutiful children, I mean, who have chosen to set off this morning without even leaving a message for us.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
Henry was an undutiful son, and his reign was one long period of confusion, marked by incidents of the most ignominious kind.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
