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UNDUTIFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undutiful mean?
• UNDUTIFUL (adjective)
The adjective UNDUTIFUL has 1 sense:
1. lacking due respect or dutifulness
Familiarity information: UNDUTIFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking due respect or dutifulness
Synonyms:
impious; undutiful
Context example:
an undutiful son
Similar:
disrespectful (exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous)
Derivation:
undutifulness (impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty)
Context examples
I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I was very undutiful.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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