untowardness
Example Sentences
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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
I hope she does not dwell on the seeming untowardness of the event, or that she can take it into a larger philosophy than that of the New York press.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
He murmured against that untowardness which, after condemning him to long sorrows on the land, now pursued him with added griefs on the deep.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
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
