untowardness
Example Sentences
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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 Henry James
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 Charles Duke Yonge
It was probably that untowardness in his outward appearance, which never afterwards left him, that made his schoolfellows consider him a dull boy, fit only to be the butt of their ridicule.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
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 Henry Sydnor Harrison
As to this untowardness I mean, frankly, to inquire of your Mother—whom I am already in communication with on the subject of going to see her to talk about you!
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
