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
Hugh had a sincere admiration for this ingenious trifle, and frequently when a hero was behaving untowardly idly amused himself with spinning up the signs.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.
The death of his faithful Arthur Smith befell most untowardly before the country readings were begun, but their success was unbroken, from Scotland to South Devon.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
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