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

Tora Holm made her appearance in the school rather untowardly.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

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 Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant