Undutiful
[ʌn'dju:tifәl]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Disobedient, unfilial, disloyal, unfaithful.
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Definition
adj. not dutiful—also Undū′teous.—adv. Undū′tifully.—n. Undū′tifulness.
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Examples
- What an undutiful boy you are! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oh, I have been a naughty and undutiful child! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Jane, you undutiful little thing, go and lie down. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As the son grew a young man, he turned out riotous, extravagant, undutiful,--altogether bad. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He feared old Mr. Turveydrop might consider it undutiful and might receive too great a shock. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Do send him word of it, you naughty undutiful nephew. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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