unfilial

Example Sentences

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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

He wrote one angry, unfilial letter back and then came silence.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Why, God bless my soul, do you call ingratitude—the basest, most unfilial, most treacherous ingratitude—no vice, sir?

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.

Wee Andra himself was particularly happy, for he took an unfilial delight in troubling his paternal relative.

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

The fear that she had awakened unfilial emotions in the bosom of Maurice infused fresh fortitude into Madeleine's spirit.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt