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

Nature had moulded him so untowardly, that he was called all his life the Abbot Malotru; i.e. ill-shaped.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by Locke, John

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 Burney, Fanny