单词 | undutifully |
释义 | undutifullyadv. (un- prefix1 5: cf. undutiful adj.) ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > [adverb] undutifully1583 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > [adverb] undutifully1583 unduteous1745 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. v. 246 These boyling harts not bearing iust reproofe, vndutifullie haue often..repined at their authoritie. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 62 It justifies a man in so doing, that nothing is done undutifully to father or mother. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iv. 60 The Fish had long in Cæsar's Ponds been fed, And from its Lord undutifully fled. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. v. 128 He had a son who most undutifully laughed at all this. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 457 The guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adv.1583 |
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