undutiful

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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

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

Henry was an undutiful son, and his reign was one long period of confusion, marked by incidents of the most ignominious kind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

He mourned for them afterwards, when he found I was not undutiful, as he had called me.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

He proved, too, an intractable and undutiful son; but that was the result to be expected, and we cannot join Thackeray in his sentimental snivel over George the Third.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)