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
That life is care and trouble and untowardness?
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke
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
It also flows from a fearful, cowardly spirit; there is nothing of greatness in it, except it be greatness of untowardness.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
Hajw—Satires on the hypocrisy of the �unco' guid,� the impiety of the pious, the ignorance of the learned, and the untowardness of his own generation.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
