untowardness

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She launched with zest upon the somewhat unoriginal thesis, and Cally relapsed into her own thoughts, which were full of rebellion at the bitter untowardness of her fate....

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

They all talked to her as though she was simply obstinate and a fool, not perceiving, as she did herself, that the untowardness of her fortune had prescribed this destiny for her.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

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

The existing administration "had, in fact, by an unaccountable obstinacy and untowardness of circumstances, been deprived of all opportunity" of showing its capacity or its intentions.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke

With large open hearts, the untowardness of things present, the miseries of the past, the mischief, stupidity, and error which reign in the world, at times almost crush your melancholy men. 

From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir