Sample Sentences for
filial
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    An F1 hybrid is the first filial generation of seeds/plants or animal offspring resulting from a cross mating of distinctly different parental types.
    filial = parent-to-child
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    None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.  (source)
    filial = child-to-parent
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    She remembered the photo, and was sure of the figures in it, because it had always struck her as strange and wonderful, the fact that Mercer, who was sixteen at the time, was leaning his head on his mother's shoulder, in an unguarded expression of filial love.†  (source)
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    Whatever dignity or feeling of filial strength we may have known before December 1941 was lost, and we did not recover it until many years after the war, not until after Papa died and we began to come together, trying to fill the vacuum his passing left in all our lives.†  (source)
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    Triumph was written on her face and no trace of shame for her unfilial treatment of Gerald.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfilial means not and reverses the meaning of filial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Dad blocked the door and filially, finally turned the knob that said "Start."†  (source)
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    Why, indeed; he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head, as you will hear.†  (source)
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    He said, "I'm busy greeting my friends," and he nodded to Discourtesy and Ugliness and Unfilial Conduct and Unkempt Fingernails.†  (source)
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    Babbitt answered modestly, almost filially.†  (source)
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    What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me!†  (source)
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    It was more likely that he would be beaten for his unfilial conduct rather than his uncle suffer, and in the end he would go in fear of his life, for if the robbers heard of it, they would kill him for revenge.†  (source)
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    Beaky, white, and solemn, Einhorn took the rebuke as deserved, filially, from the Commissioner risen out of bed, in his long underwear and his open, brocaded, heel-touching dressing gown, standing enfeebled in the kitchen and refusing the natural support of the back of a chair, independent.†  (source)
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    When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.†  (source)
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