Sentence example with the word 'untoward'

untoward

adverse, counter, fractious, impolite, inimical, menacing, portentous, too late, unfortunate, unrefined, wretched

Last update: August 25, 2015


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A blood feud can start over any number of causes - an untoward advance to a woman or the killing of a sheep dog.   [adjective]

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Full of grief at this untoward event, Heracles buried him with due honours, and then set out to chase the boar.   [adjective]

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It was a subject neither of them could have approached, and Darius was far too happy in his marriage to risk endangering that happiness by any untoward discovery.   [adjective]

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The logical thing to do was leave, but she had a good job and she wasn't sure there was anything untoward going on.   [Please select]

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There was something untoward in the air.   [Please select]

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Which untoward incident brought the modern to an end, as by a stroke of ironical fate.   [Please select]

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Sure, luck was never more untoward Since Fortune was a vixen froward.   [Please select]

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They saw Indians, but had with these no untoward encounters.   [Please select]

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