For a while we felt utterly lonely: and of our dear father as if we had buried him, or drove him to the grave by our undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

My poor mother keeps her chamber — should she be worse, I should have an additional unhappiness, in apprehension that my reputed undutifulness had touched her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

"Speak out the whole truth," said Spikeman, with rising passion, "and avow that like a thief thou didst steal in to corrupt the affections of my ward, and teach her undutifulness to her guardian.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

Osborne broke out into a rhapsody of self-praise and imprecations; — by the first, excusing himself to his own conscience for his conduct; by the second, exaggerating the undutifulness of George.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

People are disagreeable who are given to talking of the badness of their servants, the undutifulness of their children, the smokiness of their chimneys, and the deficiency of their digestive organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

You zee, Sophy, what undutifulness brings volks to.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference

Let him take the consequences of his undutifulness and folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

His parents must come forward in the End. I like reducing parents to a sense of undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Regan is forced on him at the moment by what he thinks the undutifulness of his favourite child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference

She further admits to being "pricked in hart for my undutifulness, this way I study to redeeme my peace.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Countess of Lincolnes Nurserie: A Critical Edition] Reference

It is something in favour of the Milton girls that they were at least not calculating in their undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Milton] Reference

This went to his heart, as the undutifulness of children grieves those who have nourished and brought them up, Isa. i.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

She bade him prize his own more happy lot, and seemed to wish to make all possible excuses for the unkindness and undutifulness of her only son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace] Reference

"Miss seems very tender-hearted, aunt," said Miss Polly; "and to be sure she's not to blame for her mama's undutifulness, for she couldn't help it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

Never speaking to Robert again, casting him off, and exposing the vicar for upholding filial insolence and undutifulness, were the mildest of his threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

Board afterwards, witnessing and feeling as I did, the undutifulness and insubordination of these youth, who set at nought the accommodating spirit of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Joseph Caldwell to the Wilmington Gazette, 1805 or After] Reference

He then proceeded to reproach and incriminate the prince in the severest manner for his disloyalty as a subject, and his undutifulness and ingratitude as a son.    From Wordnik.com.  [William the Conqueror Makers of History] Reference

Others, of course, have gone much further and have treated all the calamities of the tragedy as a sort of judgment on Desdemona's rashness, wilfulness and undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference

Marquise, it may be, looked on Moina's undutifulness as a punishment, and found excuses for her daughter in the will of Heaven, that so she still might adore the hand that smote her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman of Thirty] Reference

And the Barrett household was disturbed by the undutifulness of a son who had been guilty of the unpardonable crime of marriage, and in consequence was now exiled from Wimpole Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning]

If it was through her weakness and undutifulness that her father had been destroyed, through her strength should he be avenged, though in doing so she pulled down and destroyed herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

Sons, though they be drunken and profligate and spendthrift, can yet love their fathers; and with all these vices, and, therefore, not free from guilt, may yet be free from undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

Osborne broke out into a rhapsody of self-praise and imprecations; —by the first, excusing himself to his own conscience for his conduct; by the second, exaggerating the undutifulness of George.    From Wordnik.com.  [XXXV. Widow and Mother] Reference

Osborne broke out into a rhapsody of self-praise and imprecations; -- by the first, excusing himself to his own conscience for his conduct; by the second, exaggerating the undutifulness of George.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

What noble candor, to admit that the undutifulness of people, who did not think the honor of adjusting her tuckers worth the sacrifice of their own lives, was, though highly criminal, not altogether unnatural!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

At this information, the marquis assumed a very stern look, and severely reprimanded Peter for his imprudence, at the same time reproaching the other servants with their undutifulness in thus disturbing his peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sicilian Romance] Reference

If Robert's motives had not been unmixed, if his zeal had been alloyed by temper, or his self-devotion by undutifulness; if his haste had been self-willed, or his judgment one-sided, this was an hour of retribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

Her father, after having chidden her for undutifulness, consented to the match, not much to the satisfaction of Leviculus, who was sufficiently elated with his conquest to think himself entitled to a larger fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

Countess’ detestable conduct rose up before her mother; and the Marquise, it may be, looked on Moina’s undutifulness as a punishment, and found excuses for her daughter in the will of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman of Thirty] Reference

A difference between one child and another, unless there be a great and manifest cause given for it by the children's dutifulness or undutifulness; paternal government must be impartial, and managed with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference

Polly; “and to be sure she’s not to blame for her mama’s undutifulness, for she couldn’t help it.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina] Reference

It was not only disorder, but undutifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Doctrine of Sin] Reference