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
The whisper made to her father should have been made to him,—but that things had gone so untowardly with her.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony
It had been one of those lives which begin untowardly and are ruled by unfair circumstances.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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