untowardness

Example Sentences

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Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

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 Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton

It would require much patient continuance in well doing in those who attempted it, and they must be prepared, perhaps, to meet with some untowardness and much disappointment.” 

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George

His hating him was the untowardness for which Strether had been best prepared; he hadn't expected the boy's actual form to give him more to do than his imputed.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry