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How to use untoward in a sentence

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Once when he was in the outfield with his back to the Hillites, an untoward and over-beered barracker made insulting remarks about his size.
The head teachers reported no untoward problems on Friday, with results e-mailed through to the schools on schedule.
Detectives would also like to hear from anyone who may have noticed anything untoward around the train station at any time.
Nothing untoward, though one hapless guest mistook the cart path across the golf course for the exit drive.
My buddy told me that Abe was livid with anger, but he hid it, and continued to talk to Barney as though nothing untoward had been said!
They dress in business casual mostly, evincing no untoward whooping or mania or anger.
It's pretty clear that nothing untoward precipitated the disintegration of the Columbia spaceshuttle upon its re-entry.
Almost of the untoward things going on right now were absolutely predictable and unpreventable once we launched the war.
She made no complaints about the symptoms she is now describing, not even sleeplessness, nor was anything untoward observed.
All the bags in the hold of the aircraft were removed and re-scanned, although nothing untoward was detected.
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.
If this investigation should unearth anything untoward, payments could be stopped.
I think they're very guarded and very alert to anything that they think might be untoward or suspicious.
Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow.
So she got out of her car and went about her errands as though nothing untoward was happening.
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.
A police patrol car cruised by slowly a couple of times, but on that particular afternoon, there were no signs of any untoward behaviour.
Hearing raised voices in London is nothing untoward but when you're wearing a full face helmet, hearing anything is nothing short of a miracle.
However, the steady, stable nature of the industry means shareholders receive few untoward profit surprises.
I myself have felt no untoward effects, other than glowing in the dark and having x-ray vision in one eye.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Truly it is untoward, but I wish, my dear aunt, you would not let it trouble you so much.
Also the pneumococcus, though often present, must be raised in virulence before it can produce untoward results.
He thought not at all of the untoward fortune that had placed him where he stood.
Squire Gathers regarded it a most untoward thing that the belled Buzzard should have come just at this time.
He would not have been a Briton if these untoward combinations of events had not made him surly.
The size of the calculus is far from being decisive as to the certainty of impaction or as to the untoward results.
It would take only an untoward word, a false movement, to start a massacre.
The question was how to guarantee themselves from that untoward eventuality?
He seems to know that some unsettling and untoward event is on the way.
He was aware that something untoward, as he deemed it, had occurred.
Let us state that no untoward event disturbed this family meeting.
Sometimes the request hangs fire, or the fulfilment is delayed, with untoward consequences.
Somehow we don't hear much untoward about the politicians with their gravytrain meal tickets.
Had she been commissioned to tell him of some untoward event?
Indeed, anything untoward was now sedulously kept from James.
Her efforts in this line, however, were brought to an abrupt close by an untoward accident, which quenched her ardor.
Time, and right doing, would remedy and set square all that was untoward.
Chairman, before we bend to our noble task of purifying politics, in the interest of good government I wish to say a word of the untoward events of last evening.
The ape-man could not but think of the fate of his little party should some untoward incident arouse even momentarily the rage of fear of a single one of all these thousands.
Under emergency exit plan, the Commissioner said that another force of volunteers should also be formed to control the situation rapidly in case of any untoward incident.
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