unfilial

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It struck Martin that here was another gap: he had not brought with him any family photographs, and he expected that to seem unfilial would be very bad form: nor had he a favourite actress.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

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

"That's a lie!" gave out the prisoner with a maledictory eye upon his unfilial nephew.

From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.

It was consecration, if you like; but it was expiation too, the sacrifice for the sin of an unfilial clarity.

From The Return of the Prodigal by Sinclair, May

Sempronia so exasperates her father by long-continued unfilial conduct that the latter becomes insane.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome