Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an undutiful manner; not according to duty; in a disobedient manner.
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Examples
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They were merely old, and their children had undutifully failed to grow up and give them a place by the fire.
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Fabius who marry'd my Aunt; and as I should do unworthily by her, so I should act undutifully towards my Father, he having promis'd me to my
Exilius 2008
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Mr. Winkle was too anxious to hear what was to follow to express much wonderment at this extraordinary coincidence, marvellous as it was; so Mr. Ben Allen, after a tear or two, went on to say that, notwithstanding all his esteem and respect and veneration for his friend, Arabella had unaccountably and undutifully evinced the most determined antipathy to his person.
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Heaven bless her! though she, Rebecca, had seemed to act undutifully towards Miss Crawley; yet was not her fault a natural and excusable one?
Vanity Fair 2006
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He laughed most undutifully and then his face twitched grimly.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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But you will guess at my thoughts of what he said — so much passionate love, lip-deep! so prudent, and so dutifully patient at heart to a relation he had till now so undutifully despised! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He laughed most undutifully and then his face twitched grimly.
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He laughed most undutifully and then his face twitched grimly.
The Arrow of Gold 1919
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Heaven bless her! though she, Rebecca, had seemed to act undutifully towards Miss Crawley; yet was not her fault a natural and excusable one?
XXV. In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton 1917
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"Oh, mother, cut out that 'peculiar' business -- it makes me tired!" said Garth undutifully.
The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nellie L. McClung 1912
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