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Meanings of undutiful in English

Lacking due respect or dutifulness.

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        1
        Punishment has overtaken the undutiful daughter, and him who had harbored her.
        Mohammed Ali and His House
        2
        Even toward his mother he is said to be undutiful and obstinate.
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
        3
        An hour afterwards he was persuaded that his child was not undutiful.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1...
        4
        Indeed, an undutiful son is a monstrosity, a case of moral deformity.
        The Soul of the Far East
        5
        He resigns himself to the inevitable; blesses his undutiful sons; and dismisses them.
        A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
        6
        I felt resentment; horrid, undutiful resentment, at being treated in this cruel way.
        The Legacy of Cain
        7
        He regretted the undutiful words the instant they escaped his lips.
        The Drummer Boy
        8
        But I must now tell you something of your undutiful son.
        Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia / From ...
        9
        A fico for you, madam, said the most undutiful of great-great-grandsons.
        The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
        10
        Elliott's repugnance at seeing her undutiful grandson causes her departure to Mr. Armstrong's.
        The Eskdale Herd-boy / A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and A...
        11
        One of the girls was so undutiful as to snigger.
        The Submarine Boys for the Flag / Deeding Their Lives to Uncle S...
        12
        I have so looked forward-repudiatingthe charge of undutiful compulsion.
        The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
        13
        No one can say I have been undutiful or disrespectful.
        The open door and The portrait
        14
        Is not this the only way in the world to make children become undutiful?
        A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
        15
        Do send him word of it, you naughty undutiful nephew.
        Middlemarch
        16
        His father never really forgave him for this undutiful stupidity.
        Typhoon
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