unfilial

Example Sentences

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The ladies felt very sorry for Major Morton and indignant with the hard-hearted, unfilial Meg.

From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)

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 pained Mary Louise to hear so unfilial a speech from the lips of a young girl.

From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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

She was persistent in the practice, and her unfilial and rude sons called her “Old Snuff.”

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William