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

She excludes her devoted husband from the inheritance in favour of her most unfilial son?

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

One cannot be a son and be unfilial or unbrotherly.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

Punishment of unfilial conduct The Sumerian laws are very severe upon a child's repudiation of a father.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Wee Andra, having wisely deferred his last shot until his dinner was finished, obeyed his father's injunction with alacrity, and went off to the fields, consumed with unfilial mirth.

From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller