unfilial
Example Sentences
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One cannot be a son and be unfilial or unbrotherly.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
It was consecration, if you like; but it was expiation too, the sacrifice for the sin of an unfilial clarity.
From The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair
Give me the will which was made in the interests of so unfilial a son by his mother.
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Constantine was neither precocious nor unfilial, but in his twenty-second year he rebelled against his mother's dictation, and took his place at the helm of the state.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
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
