Unduteous

a. (and adv.). [UN-¹ 7.]

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1. Undutiful; also adv., undutifully.

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1598. Shaks., Merry W., V. v. 240. This deceit looses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or vnduteous title.

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1645. Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1851, IV. 260. Perpetually unsociable, unpeacefull, or unduteous.

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1694. Dryden, Love Triumph., I. i. I … must condemn This carriage, as unduteous to your father.

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1745. Matrimony pro & con, 7. What! teach a Child unduteous to behave?

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1848. Lytton, Harold, XI. viii. Why this dispute?—why this unduteous discord?

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2. spec. = INOFFICIOUS a. 1 b. rare^–1.

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1861. Maine, Anc. Law, vii. 215. A new remedy … called … ‘The Plaint of an Unduteous Will,’ directed to the reinstatement of the issue in inheritances, from which they had been unjustifiably excluded.

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