unfilial

Example Sentences

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With this unfilial expression she hurried toward the river.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert

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)

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

She was persistent in the practice, and her unfilial and rude sons called her “Old Snuff.”

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William

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.