untowardness
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It is most agreeable to be told, by a writer very eminent both for wisdom and for culture, that our untowardness was a hopeful sign.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
But we believe, in spite of this, that all this untowardness will yield to the gradual wooing of circumstances, and that it is to May, and not December, that we are to look forward.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell
I hope she does not dwell on the seeming untowardness of the event, or that she can take it into a larger philosophy than that of the New York press.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
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