dutiful
adjective
performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful child.
undutiful
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a word derived from
dutiful.
Example Sentences
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“Mr. Drummle,” said Mrs. Pocket, “will you ring for Flopson? Jane, you undutiful little thing, go and lie down. Now, baby darling, come with ma!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Come back to Fairburn, and I will behave towards you as though you had not acted in your late undutiful manner.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
But for once he appeared undutiful, for he hurriedly postponed the invitation.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Mariquita is not undutiful, and you must know it.
From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough
Henry was an undutiful son, and his reign was one long period of confusion, marked by incidents of the most ignominious kind.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
