untowardness
Example Sentences
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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
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
That life is care and trouble and untowardness?
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke
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
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
