unfilial

Example Sentences

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One cannot be a son and be unfilial or unbrotherly.

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

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

That's a dreadfully unfilial speech, but I expect every man likes to feel that the girl he cares for would have stuck to him through every kind of obstacle—poverty, obscurity, the world's misunderstanding.

From The Ranch Girls at Home Again by Vandercook, Margaret

Seeing his wretched state, Periander took pity on him and bade him come home and no longer indulge in such foolish and unfilial behavior.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Wee Andra himself was particularly happy, for he took an unfilial delight in troubling his paternal relative.

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