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Untoward   /əntuˈɔrd/  /əntəwˈɔrd/   Listen
adjective
Untoward  adj.  
1.
Froward; perverse. "Save yourselves from this untoward generation."
2.
Awkward; ungraceful. "Untoward words." "Untoward manner."
3.
Inconvenient; troublesome; vexatious; unlucky; unfortunate; as, an untoward wind or accident.


preposition
Untoward  prep.  Toward. (Obs.)





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"Untoward" Quotes from Famous Books



... sounds that annoy us; setting about this or that task, when we had far rather be doing something very different; persevering in it, often, when we are thoroughly tired of it; keeping company for duty's sake, when it would be a great joy to us to be by ourselves; besides all the trifling untoward accidents of life; bodily pain and weakness long continued, and perplexing us often when it does not amount to illness; losing what we value, missing what we desire; disappointment in other persons, wilfulness, ...
— Daily Strength for Daily Needs • Mary W. Tileston
... despatch Nicias peevishly complains of the exacting temper of the Athenians, and their readiness to blame anyone but themselves if anything untoward occurred. Whatever may be the truth of the general charge, it was most ill-timed and ungrateful in his own case. Towards him, at least, the conduct of his fellow- citizens was marked by an excess of generosity, amounting to actual infatuation. Nothing is more ...
— Stories From Thucydides • H. L. Havell
... the joy of a victory won. Untoward circumstances had been vanquished—the butcher, the baker had been settled with or—done without. For sometimes Amelia Craven came to give us a day's baking, and an array of fragrant scones and girdle-cakes, which I was ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... exultant that he laughed aloud. A few minutes before he had been swimming for his life. Now he was in a canoe, and nothing but the most untoward accident could keep him from reaching the Kentucky shore. One or two shots were fired at long range from the pursuing canoes, but the bullets did not come anywhere near him, and he replied with an ...
— The Riflemen of the Ohio - A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" • Joseph A. Altsheler
... cry, kissed the shrunken leaf, and hid it again in her bosom. Albert was not at ease. He was annoyed at the untoward encounter, a touch of jealousy disquieted and distressed his soul, and yet he could not say that the girl was in the wrong. At ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various


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