unfilial

Example Sentences

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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 Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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)

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

With this unfilial expression she hurried toward the river.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert