unfilial
Americanadjective
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With this unfilial expression she hurried toward the river.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
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 May Sinclair
Once across the border Elizabeth would have no power over her, and her son, unfilial though he hath shown himself, could not for very shame refuse her safe asylum.
From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by Clyde Osmer De Land
The ladies felt very sorry for Major Morton and indignant with the hard-hearted, unfilial Meg.
From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
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 Harold Edgeworth Butler
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