unfilial

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Madame made up her mind to upbraid Gabrielle severely for her inhuman and unfilial conduct.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

Perhaps what happened in the future was a punishment for this unfilial conduct, however much it was provoked.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

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)

Seven prohibitions: to go security for an outlaw, for a jester and for a madman, for a person without bonds, for an unfilial person, for an imbecile, for one excommunicated.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno

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