settings
Middlemarch vocabulary
11 archaic vocabulary words
help & settings
[x]
-
undutiful
-
tags: [archaic]
► definition
Definition:not performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; disobedient, as to parents or superiors;
► uses
Uses:
If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould."
"What an undutiful boy you are!" said Miss Ophelia.
"I don't mean them any disrespect," said St. Clare. "You know reverence is not my forte.[...]"
---
As the son grew a young man, he turned out riotous, extravagant, undutiful,—altogether bad.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
help with search