unfilial

Example Sentences

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Perhaps what happened in the future was a punishment for this unfilial conduct, however much it was provoked.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

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)

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)

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

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