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

This was undutiful, but certainly not more so than shouting "You, Dennis!" at him down the whole length of an uproarious dinner-table.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

It is the story of a rebellious and undutiful child, and illustrates by contrast the unfathomable depth of a father's love, of a love that yearns even over the wicked, over the lost.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

Fie! naughty, undutiful, cruel, tyrannous, jolly little monster.

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

I'm sorry to appear the undutiful grandson and all that, but really, don't you know, I must discourage her a bit.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton