untowardly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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If one considers the Redditors to be untowardly moving the market by talking in public, aren’t professional traders doing the same when they talk in private?
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2021
Upstairs there were scenes; downstairs there were bubblings; in my lady's chamber there was bitterness of heart, all because a spoiled and lonely child was untowardly fond of a buman being who made the bread.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
And what might be the reason of your coming back again in such an untowardly sort of manner? without any money, or any one to be accountable for your character?'
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
This he puts together so untowardly, that you may perceive his own wit as the rickets, by the swelling disproportion of the joints.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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