Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not filial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child.

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  • adjective Not befitting or proper for a son.

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ filial.

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Examples

  • And from the fact that besides the scholar class the rest of the community consisted of agriculturists, artisans, and merchants, whose knowledge was that of their fathers and grandfathers, inculcated in the sons and grandsons as it had been in them, showing them how to carry on in the same groove the calling to which Fate had assigned them, a departure from which would have been considered 'unfilial' -- unless, of course (as it very rarely did), it went the length of attaining through study of the classics a place in the official class, and thus shedding eternal lustre on the family -- it will readily be seen that there was nothing to cause education to be concerned with any but one or two of the subjects which are included by Western peoples under that designation.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • Sheen is a disgrace, unfilial to his father and his fatherland.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • They think Caucasians are inferior -- lazy, unfilial, abandon wives and children at the drop of a hat, don't do as well in school, score worse on standardized tests, etc. etc.

    The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Give me the will which was made in the interests of so unfilial a son by his mother.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • I spent the whole of last night just tossing and turning in bed, unable to get over the fact that at times, I feel like I have morphed, officially, into an 'evil and corrupt (not to mention unfilial)' adult.

    rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2008

  • But Chinese assume they are superior to the lazy, unstudious, unfilial, wife-and-family-abandoning white Americans.

    "Obama acted almost as the primaries were behind him, offering a case against the probable Republican nominee." Ann Althouse 2008

  • She excludes her devoted husband from the inheritance in favour of her most unfilial son?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Give me the will which was made in the interests of so unfilial a son by his mother.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • When my worthy uncle, Mr.S. Mowbray, (for I will not call him Scrogie even in the grave,) paid his debt to nature, every body concluded he would be found to have disinherited his son, the unfilial Scrogie, and so far every body was right — But it was also generally believed that he would settle the estate on my father, Lord

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • She excludes her devoted husband from the inheritance in favour of her most unfilial son?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

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