undutiful

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13
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18
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9

Definition of undutiful

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not dutiful.
    “I know my duty; you are all undutiful: Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George, And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all I am your better, traitors as ye are: And thou usurp’st my father’s right and mine.”
    “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 have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children.—Not that I have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body.”
    “For myself, I felt so much self-reproach and contrition for my part in what had happened, that nothing would have enabled me to keep back my tears but the fear that Steerforth, who often looked at me, I saw, might think it unfriendly—or, I should rather say, considering our relative ages, and the feeling with which I regarded him, undutiful—if I showed the emotion which distressed me.”

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Etymology

From un- + dutiful.

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