The repudiation is expressed in the words, “You are not my father,” but it may be intended to cover all unfilial conduct.
The Athenians punished with death any unfilial conduct.
As if to disgust us with unfilial conduct, the Bible presents us the story of Micah, who stole the eleven hundred shekels from his mother, and the story of Absalom, who tried to dethrone his father.
Eugene, his features illumined by enthusiasm and radiant with hope, covered his mother's hand with kisses, and again besought her forgiveness for his unfilial behavior in the gallery.
Mother," whispered Eugene, "they must be the same men whom I met in the streets, and whose jeers drove me thither to add to your misery the stab of my unfilial doubts.
At last, seeing no way of escape from being unfilial to the memory of her mother and from fulfilling the old man's wish, she made up her mind to die and put an end to the struggle.
It seems that a plot with such an object was actually on foot, and that the younger Henry gave it up in a moment of better feeling, when he realized the evil impression that the unfilial act would make upon the nation.
He seems to have felt a genuine regret for the unfilial conduct which had vexed his father's last years, and showed a careful determination to turn over a new leaf and give his enemies no scope for criticism.
Prince Henry's unfilial conduct on the authority of this document alone.
It would scarcely be credible, even had the report come through a less questionable channel, that Henry of Monmouth up to that time had been guilty of the unfilial delinquency with which the MS.
I saw Mrs. Holmes, who, gladdened by the Distinguished Conduct Medallist's return, had wiped from her memory his abominably unfilial behaviour.
Of ne'er-do-wells below he was the prime, Unfiliallike him none up to this time.
The unfilial girl said she prayed, "Kwan-yin, send me a husband with no family.
Wee Andra, having wisely deferred his last shot until his dinner was finished, obeyed his father's injunction with alacrity, and went off to the fields, consumed with unfilial mirth.
Wee Andra himself was particularly happy, for he took an unfilial delight in troubling his paternal relative.
According to Mencius the greatest unfilial act is to leave no progeny.
There is no greater sin than to cherish unfilial thoughts.
What hinders you now from putting to death this unfilial son as an example to all the people?
He must of course continue to be treated with obedience and respect, and very few fathers in China have any real cause to accuse a son of unfilial behaviour.
A bird that pecks at its parent's eyes as soon as it is fledged and so is an example of unfilial conduct.
It is an important part of Chinese teaching that the most unfilial of sons is he who has no children: the reason being, of course, that childlessness means the extinction of the family and the cessation of the ancestral sacrifices.
According to Mencius the most unfilial of sons is he who does not become the father of children.
The seduction of Tamar, the murder of Amnon, the unfilial licentiousness of Absalom, the sordid road of impurity trod by the later monarchs of Israel, and the despair of the Babylonish captivity, make a piercing case against polygamy.
In spite of angry decrees, is not the brother still a brother, and do not father and mother remain father and mother in defiance of all unfilial pronouncements of divorce?
That's him, you bet,' he answered withunfilial promptitude.
When the other heard his mother's complaint, and the unfilial conduct of his son, he sprang out of bed in great wrath, and swore that he would kill the young man.
Mencius reckoned "to play wei-ch'i for money" among the five unfilial acts.
Those who in life have been unfilial or have destroyed much life, when they have been tortured in the various Courts are brought here and beaten to death with peach twigs.
From this rule to be excepted disloyal ministers, unfilial sons, suicides, those who plot in secret against good people, those who are struck by lightning (lit.
These apologists must bear with a writer who sees much to condemn, and nothing to admire, in such exhibitions of unfilial rancour and profanity.
In unfilial fashion Apollonius had concealed the danger from him in order to be able to take the whole credit for the rescue to himself.
It's mean to want to show your own mother--most unfilial conduct!
I hope it is not unfilial to say that I think he was wrong in that point of view, but I am not sure I go so far as to approve of aeroplanes, though they may be a military necessity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfilial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
