undutifulness

He might, indeed, if he had learnt his trade in that singular criticism of Shakespeare, which has decided that Hamlet was written for a warning to the irresolute, and Coriolanus as a lesson to the proud, persuade himself that the poem was written to show how great passion leads to undutifulness and selfishness.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

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.

Vanity Fair 2006

Let him take the consequences of his undutifulness and folly.

Vanity Fair 2006

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.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

He said it was always so: that he had never cherished a young man in his bosom, but the ingrate had turned on him; that he was accustomed to wrong and undutifulness from his children, and that he would pray that the sin might be forgiven me.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

But gloriously would it punish the mother (as well as daughter) for all her sordid avarice; and for her undutifulness to honest Mr. Howe, whose heart she actually broke.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Get down the round-hand scrawls of your son who has half broken your heart with selfish undutifulness since; or a parcel of your own, breathing endless ardour and love eternal, which were sent back by your mistress when she married the Nabob — your mistress for whom you now care no more than for Queen Elizabeth.

Vanity Fair 2006

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.

The Virginians 2006

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.

A Sicilian Romance 2004

You zee, Sophy, what undutifulness brings volks to.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004