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She tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial respect would allow.filial = child-to-parent
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She knew neither filial nor romantic love.filial = parent/child
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Filial loyalty and love are cherished aspects of traditional Japanese culture.filial = child-to-parent
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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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I've explained to her that this would be Buddy's paternal nephew or niece, but as you well know, those not involved in animal husbandry have little interest in exact filial relationships, and no appreciation of their significance.† (source)
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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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He said, "I'm busy greeting my friends," and he nodded to Discourtesy and Ugliness and Unfilial Conduct and Unkempt Fingernails.† (source)Unfilial = not related to the relationship of children to parentsstandard 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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With the imminence of the wedding, Pietro Crespi had hinted that Aureliano Jose, in whom he had stirred up a love that was almost filial, would be considered their oldest child.† (source)
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Triumph was written on her face and no trace of shame for her unfilial treatment of Gerald.† (source)
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Babbitt answered modestly, almost filially.† (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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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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I had thought you mortals capable of filial affection, at least, and yet you seem to feel no loyalty toward Valentine your father.† (source)
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