untoward🔊

Unfavorable, adverse, or disadvantageous.

📑 Synonyms: adverse disadvantageous inconvenient unfavorable unfortunate

💬 Quotations

But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred […]

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Unruly, troublesome; not easily guided.

📑 Synonyms: difficult fractious stubborn troublesome uncontrollable unruly

Unseemly, improper.

📑 Synonyms: immodest improper unseemly

💬 Quotations

She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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