undutiful

How To Use undutiful In A Sentence

• Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
• He is also undutiful to me, besides being a spendthrift and squanderer.
• She is harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants either refuse to obey his orders or pretend that they did not hear them.
• Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• For the Emperor is the father of all, and, since his authority is transferred to officers, disobedience to them would equal undutiful conduct.
• They must acknowledge that they had acted undutifully.
• But he was painfully anxious to exculpate himself from the guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France.
• The daughter in-law who severs ties with her mother in-law causes her husband to abandon his mother and sever his ties with her; thus, such a wife becomes the reason behind his undutifulness towards his mother.
• Disobedience in this regard does not constitute undutifulness to parents.
• “Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. Bleak House