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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"Oh, mother, cut out that 'peculiar' business—it makes me tired!" said Garth undutifully.
From The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder by Nellie L. McClung
Secondly, to dissemble my feelings: an alternative on which if I said another word I should be behaving undutifully and wickedly towards you.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
Osborne looked amused, and Aynsley undutifully grinned, but Miss Dexter’s expression hinted at rather grim astonishment.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
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
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
