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
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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 Hay, Ian
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 Trollope, Mrs
England was held to be an undutiful daughter of Rome.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William
You are naughty, and undutiful; very undutiful, as well as thoughtless.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe