untowardness

But it is only toward calamity and adversity and worldly untowardness that I feel indifferent.

Thus thinking, he ceased to murmur at the untowardness of Fate.

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

I now acknowledge the untowardness of the situation; but when the boys laughed, I pooh-poohed it.