untowardness

Example Sentences

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Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

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 James, Henry

She allowed not her thoughts to go astray, striving continually for a pure and meek heart, begging forgiveness for her untowardness toward her husband.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton

That life is care and trouble and untowardness?

From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke

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 Melville, Herman