unfilial

Example Sentences

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That's a dreadfully unfilial speech, but I expect every man likes to feel that the girl he cares for would have stuck to him through every kind of obstacle—poverty, obscurity, the world's misunderstanding.

From The Ranch Girls at Home Again by Vandercook, Margaret

He had, however, tact enough to preserve his gravity, whilst he assured his companion that no unfilial sentiment had any share in his thoughts.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Sempronia so exasperates her father by long-continued unfilial conduct that the latter becomes insane.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

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

Wee Andra, having wisely deferred his last shot until his dinner was finished, obeyed his father's injunction with alacrity, and went off to the fields, consumed with unfilial mirth.

From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller