undutiful

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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

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)

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

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

She thinks you are in India with the regiment, and calls you a very undutiful brother for not writing to her.

From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry