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untowardly

[uhn-tuh-wawrd-lee, uhn-tawrd-lee] / ˌʌn təˈwɔrd li, ˌʌnˈtɔrd li /


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If one considers the Redditors to be untowardly moving the market by talking in public, aren’t professional traders doing the same when they talk in private?

From Slate Jan. 26, 2021

Upstairs there were scenes; downstairs there were bubblings; in my lady's chamber there was bitterness of heart, all because a spoiled and lonely child was untowardly fond of a buman being who made the bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

He played well, and yet methinks he held his lute but untowardly.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

Tora Holm made her appearance in the school rather untowardly.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson




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