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单词 untoward
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Definition of untoward in English:

untoward

adjective 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。

    untoward remarks
    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

Derivatives

  • untowardly

  • adverb
    • 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.
  • untowardness

  • 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:

untoward

adjective
  • 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
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