What is "undutiful"

Usage examples of "undutiful".

Life was proving itself a tiresome business, full of unpaid bills, and undutiful daughters.

She had asked for guidance, and he had given it, as a father should to a daughter, however undutiful and headstrong.

What then, I answer, shall we punish the undutiful, the malicious, the avaricious, the headstrong, and the cruel?

At any rate the judge seems to have been shocked at the undutiful litigation, and treated the old man with much respect.

Against a feeling that she was adopting an attitude both undutiful and unbecoming, Sofia persisted.

The doctor retired into the kitchen, where, addressing himself to the landlady, he complained bitterly of the undutiful behaviour of his patient, who would not be blooded, though he was in a fever.

I trust you are neither so foolish nor so undutiful as to conduct yourself in a way that must make him think better of offering for your hand.

Possessing a large fortune, he would be his own master, gratify his every wish, and make amends to his mother for his present undutiful conduct.

I have not reason to curse the undutiful obstinacy of that pert baggage, and renounce her for ever as an alien to my blood.

Henry White, a young clergyman, with whom he now formed an intimacy, so as to talk to him with great freedom, he mentioned that he could not in general accuse himself of having been an undutiful son.

Turveydrop might consider it undutiful and might receive too great a shock.

He feared old Mr. Turveydrop might consider it undutiful and might receive too great a shock.

It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.