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

Mariquita is not undutiful, and you must know it.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John

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 very naughty, very unkind, very undutiful of you.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe

Don't, Charles, it—it's ungenerous and undutiful to reproach me with being a shareholder when you know how innocently I became one!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 by Various