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

Come back to Fairburn, and I will behave towards you as though you had not acted in your late undutiful manner.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James

The imprisoned Shah Jehan exclaimed in his wrath that he would break all his gems to atoms sooner than let his undutiful son touch one of them.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard

Then how are they gone this morning?—those undutiful children, I mean, who have chosen to set off this morning without even leaving a message for us.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

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