untowardly

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

It operated as untowardly as Flora had predicted, and the lad came so near his death that the Captain grew alarmed.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Moodie, Susanna

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