dutifully
adverb
in a way that is required by moral or legal obligation, societal or cultural expectations, or a person’s position or occupation.
undutifully
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a word derived from
dutifully.
Example Sentences
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It was a most undutifully matter-of-fact and prosaic piece of furniture in its interior, however much it may have pleased the æsthetic sense outwardly.
From What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
You are going to take their part—and suggest their acting undutifully towards their parents.”
From Tommy and Co. by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
If report is true he had a scolding wife–the name of Xanthippe has become a proverb–and yet what more noble than Socrates’ rebuke to his son when he behaved undutifully towards his mother?
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
He laughed most undutifully and then his face twitched grimly.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad
I may seem to have spoken unkindly and undutifully about her in the course of these recollections.
From Stray Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
