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

The King had been mad and blind and deaf for ten years, and the Queen, years before, had complained of the Prince's conduct as unfilial, if not inhuman.

From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Bradlaugh, Charles

The girl herself lacked in respect for her father, and this unfilial attitude seemed condoned by both Mary Louise and the Colonel, which was evidence that there was something wrong about Jason Jones.

From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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.

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