unfilial
Americanadjective
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Not content with wreaking your unfilial spite against your own father who begat you, you must smirch the good name of a lady who has always loaded you with kindness.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Marshall, Archibald
Wee Andra, having wisely deferred his last shot until his dinner was finished, obeyed his father's injunction with alacrity, and went off to the fields, consumed with unfilial mirth.
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
I would appeal to heaven, but the sun and moon have no favour for an unfilial son.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
The ladies felt very sorry for Major Morton and indignant with the hard-hearted, unfilial Meg.
From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
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 De Land, Clyde Osmer
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