unfilial

Example Sentences

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With this unfilial expression she hurried toward the river.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert

Punishment of unfilial conduct The Sumerian laws are very severe upon a child's repudiation of a father.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

I would appeal to heaven, but the sun and moon have no favour for an unfilial son.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

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 Sinclair, May

It is a thing unheard of, that a child ever raised a hand or uttered an unfilial expression of contempt towards his parents.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis