undutiful

Example Sentences

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“Mr. Drummle,” said Mrs. Pocket, “will you ring for Flopson? Jane, you undutiful little thing, go and lie down. Now, baby darling, come with ma!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

There was little comfort in the assertions of the one whom he referred to as his "Sunday-school aunt," that he ought to be thankful to be rid of so undutiful and undesirable a companion.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles

The imprisoned Shah Jehan exclaimed in his wrath that he would break all his gems to atoms sooner than let his undutiful son touch one of them.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard

She thinks you are in India with the regiment, and calls you a very undutiful brother for not writing to her.

From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

It is the story of a rebellious and undutiful child, and illustrates by contrast the unfathomable depth of a father's love, of a love that yearns even over the wicked, over the lost.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix