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单词 unfilial
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Definition of unfilial in English:

unfilial

adjectiveʌnˈfɪlɪəlˌənˈfɪljəl
  • Not having or showing the qualities associated with a son or daughter.

    to question a parental decision was considered unfilial
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The older brother's lack of filial virtue is stressed likewise by his unfilial attitude towards his mother's death, and his killing of the dog, which, of course, is his mother in another guise.
    • That was unfilial conduct, Mencius said, but compared to not getting married at all, and having no offspring, that was not important.
    • Either is possible, because the disheartening news about unfilial children still alerts me to the possibility of the son turning his back on his mother.
    • If he is remembered at all, it is as the domestic monster in the unfilial literary classic, Father and Son.
    • Faculty who object to the decisions of clerical leaders can seem unfilial.
    • Another tells the story of an old man deserted by his unfilial daughters and which has some similarity to Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’.
    • Parents also begged the girls not to reveal the parents' involvement in the indenture to the police, and accused the girls of being unfilial if they did.
    • Mencius, a Confucian master even said: ‘There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.’

Derivatives

  • unfilially

  • adverbʌnˈfɪlɪəliˌənˈfɪliəli
    • He published by subscription a small edition of his father's works in 1747, but selfishly and unfilially omitted several of the best of them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In her search for her missing husband, the woman demonstrated loyalty to her husband; however, since her discovery of the body exposed her father's crime, she also acted unfilially.
      • ‘I don't know whether to speak to Abner,’ the other proceeded unfilially, ‘or the great Penny first.’
 
 

Definition of unfilial in US English:

unfilial

adjectiveˌənˈfilyəlˌənˈfɪljəl
  • Not having or showing the qualities associated with a son or daughter.

    to question a parental decision was considered unfilial
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mencius, a Confucian master even said: ‘There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.’
    • That was unfilial conduct, Mencius said, but compared to not getting married at all, and having no offspring, that was not important.
    • Another tells the story of an old man deserted by his unfilial daughters and which has some similarity to Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’.
    • Parents also begged the girls not to reveal the parents' involvement in the indenture to the police, and accused the girls of being unfilial if they did.
    • Faculty who object to the decisions of clerical leaders can seem unfilial.
    • Either is possible, because the disheartening news about unfilial children still alerts me to the possibility of the son turning his back on his mother.
    • If he is remembered at all, it is as the domestic monster in the unfilial literary classic, Father and Son.
    • The older brother's lack of filial virtue is stressed likewise by his unfilial attitude towards his mother's death, and his killing of the dog, which, of course, is his mother in another guise.
 
 
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