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Definition of untoward in English: untowardadjective ʌnˈtəʊədʌntəˈwɔːd Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient. 事与愿违的;不合宜的;不方便的,麻烦的 both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened 双方都装作似乎什么麻烦事都没有发生过的样子。 Example sentencesExamples - Detectives would also like to hear from anyone who may have noticed anything untoward around the train station at any time.
- The head teachers reported no untoward problems on Friday, with results e-mailed through to the schools on schedule.
- Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
- The animals did not show any untoward effect during the trial and post trial phases.
- People always blame the legal system whenever something untoward happens.
- Besides the huge medical waste, the untoward effects of using antibiotics is increasing rapidly.
- The problem becomes more complicated when any untoward incident takes place in the Srinagar city or its vicinity.
- Unfortunately, prognostic error may have untoward effects on both patient care and social policy.
- It was the only untoward incident in an otherwise sportingly contested local derby.
- People roamed the streets, drove their cars, popped into a cafe for a coffee - nothing visibly untoward or unusual.
- I assumed this untoward behaviour indicated that we had previously met.
- She has also proposed, however, that untoward effects may emerge when this blending is absent.
- I myself have felt no untoward effects, other than glowing in the dark and having x-ray vision in one eye.
- However, the steady, stable nature of the industry means shareholders receive few untoward profit surprises.
- He claimed that he went to the flat in August but denied anything untoward took place and he said the second incident was entirely consensual.
- Nor, he insists, was there anything odd or untoward about his advocating the break up the United Kingdom while he was a servant of the state.
- She had been referred for the scan as she has a hearing problem, and the doctor wanted to check that there was nothing untoward going on inside her skull.
- According to the organisers, no untoward incident happened during the five-day exposition.
- Any untoward effects appear first in this sensitive age group.
- A man would be lewd with, or proposition, or tell an untoward joke toward a female.
Synonyms unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unpredictable, unpredicted surprising, unusual inopportune, untimely, ill-timed, badly timed, mistimed inconvenient, awkward, unwelcome, unfavourable, adverse, unfortunate, infelicitous inappropriate, unsuitable, inapt rare malapropos archaic unseasonable
Derivativesadverb The replacement, Enduring Freedom, was well-received in U.S. mass media, an irony-free zone where only the untowardly impertinent might suggest that some people had no choice other than to endure the Pentagon's freedom to bomb. Example sentencesExamples - He could have used this opportunity to express his dismay but also to start a dialogue to know and eliminate the reasons for the unrest and an untowardly reaction.
- Even the youngish people around me seemed untowardly geeky and uncool, like their mothers had dressed them all.
- But I thought afterwards that I should outline to myself and people reading this blog why I am so sceptical of the EU - seeing as I don't like to appear untowardly negative or a begrudger of people's genuine aims.
noun All evils, as elements, are most troublesome, when out of their proper place, as impiety in professors; injustice in judges; unkindness or untowardness in a people toward their pastor. Example sentencesExamples - I hope the personal integrity of everyone at UCLA will ensure no such untowardness unfolds.
- They all talked to her as though she was simply obstinate and a fool, not perceiving, as she did herself, that the untowardness of her fortune had prescribed this destiny for her.
- One has to wonder at the possible untowardness of the caption beneath the shooter on page 47 of the Jan / Feb 2004 issue.
- His untowardness is the effect of environment, an effect for which ‘society’ is somehow responsible.
Definition of untoward in US English: untowardadjective Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient. 事与愿违的;不合宜的;不方便的,麻烦的 both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened 双方都装作似乎什么麻烦事都没有发生过的样子。 untoward jokes and racial remarks 不合宜的玩笑和有关种族的评论。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, prognostic error may have untoward effects on both patient care and social policy.
- She had been referred for the scan as she has a hearing problem, and the doctor wanted to check that there was nothing untoward going on inside her skull.
- Besides the huge medical waste, the untoward effects of using antibiotics is increasing rapidly.
- She has also proposed, however, that untoward effects may emerge when this blending is absent.
- The problem becomes more complicated when any untoward incident takes place in the Srinagar city or its vicinity.
- Detectives would also like to hear from anyone who may have noticed anything untoward around the train station at any time.
- I assumed this untoward behaviour indicated that we had previously met.
- He claimed that he went to the flat in August but denied anything untoward took place and he said the second incident was entirely consensual.
- Nor, he insists, was there anything odd or untoward about his advocating the break up the United Kingdom while he was a servant of the state.
- However, the steady, stable nature of the industry means shareholders receive few untoward profit surprises.
- According to the organisers, no untoward incident happened during the five-day exposition.
- It was the only untoward incident in an otherwise sportingly contested local derby.
- The animals did not show any untoward effect during the trial and post trial phases.
- A man would be lewd with, or proposition, or tell an untoward joke toward a female.
- Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
- The head teachers reported no untoward problems on Friday, with results e-mailed through to the schools on schedule.
- People always blame the legal system whenever something untoward happens.
- I myself have felt no untoward effects, other than glowing in the dark and having x-ray vision in one eye.
- Any untoward effects appear first in this sensitive age group.
- People roamed the streets, drove their cars, popped into a cafe for a coffee - nothing visibly untoward or unusual.
Synonyms unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unpredictable, unpredicted |