Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
Annoyed, the father insisted on driving the ‘undutiful son’ out of the house.
‘It would be very undutiful in you to refuse, so I had better leave you to your task,’ said Timothy, smiling, as he quitted the room.
A child who does not pray Allah for his parents, particularly, after their death, when he knows that his supplication on their behalf benefits them and him is either undutiful or lacking in faith.
He is also undutiful to me, besides being a spendthrift and squanderer.
Paternal credulity in Terence generally limits itself to mistaking undutiful sons for obedient and honest sons.
On the other hand, if we continue to be undutiful to our parents, Allah's anger will be severe.
For the Emperor is the father of all, and, since his authority is transferred to officers, disobedience to them would equal undutiful conduct.
She is harsh and undutiful to him, and her servants either refuse to obey his orders or pretend that they did not hear them.
If you let it slip from your hands you will deserve to be branded as ungrateful cowards and undutiful sons.
But his reputation as a bad head of household dishonored him, and his undutiful behavior toward his mother followed him into the courtroom.
Derivatives
undutifully
adverbʌnˈdjuːtɪf(ə)liʌnˈdjuːtɪfʊli
They were merely old, and their children had undutifully failed to grow up and give them a place by the fire.
Example sentencesExamples
But he was painfully anxious to exculpate himself from the guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France.
Marcus makes clear that at every stage she behaved unreasonably, unsociably, and undutifully.
Like many cases before this where the police have acted inappropriately and undutifully they do not want another damaging case against the faults of the police released to the public.
They must acknowledge that they had acted undutifully.
undutifulness
noun
Disobedience in this regard does not constitute undutifulness to parents.
Example sentencesExamples
The case as against them is undoubtedly a strong one, and they must be left to defend themselves as best they can against the charge of undutifulness to their mother, the Establishment.
It is wrong for parents to make a difference between one child and another, unless there is great cause for it, by the children's dutifulness, or undutifulness.
The daughter in-law who severs ties with her mother in-law causes her husband to abandon his mother and sever his ties with her; thus, such a wife becomes the reason behind his undutifulness towards his mother.
Had undutifulness been found among the ignorant people, it might have been a little excusable.