unfilial

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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

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.

Seven prohibitions: to go security for an outlaw, for a jester and for a madman, for a person without bonds, for an unfilial person, for an imbecile, for one excommunicated.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno

It struck Martin that here was another gap: he had not brought with him any family photographs, and he expected that to seem unfilial would be very bad form: nor had he a favourite actress.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

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