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

He succeeded in catching the Marquis of Hurricane's to the intense delight of his undutiful sons the Earl of Squall and Lord Augustus Wind.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

They also looked upon it as the emblem of undutiful children, from the idle belief that the viper came into the world by piercing an opening in its mother’s side.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

It is very naughty, very unkind, very undutiful of you.

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

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)