unfilial

Example Sentences

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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

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.

She was not aware that she had behaved in an unfilial manner to her father.

From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Constantine was neither precocious nor unfilial, but in his twenty-second year he rebelled against his mother's dictation, and took his place at the helm of the state.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

She excludes her devoted husband from the inheritance in favour of her most unfilial son?

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth