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    [Adjective]  | "un*to*ward" | \ ˌən-ˈtō-ərd \


    1: difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly, intractable

    2: marked by trouble or unhappiness : unlucky

    3: not favorable : adverse, unpropitious


    Origin: 1526 ;

    [Adjective]  | "untoward" 


    1: given to resisting authority or another's control;


      * e.g., " ... tried to reason with the untoward child "





    2: given to resisting control or discipline by others;


      * e.g., " ... a program for untoward teenagers that is designed to give them the kind of discipline that their parents were unable or unwilling to administer "





    3: opposed to one's interests;


      * e.g., " ... achieved great success as an artist despite growing up in a very untoward milieu "





     [ "Untoward" ]

    1: Untoward has a number of different meanings, three of the commonest uses are as follows:- 1 Unexpected and inconvenient;

      * e.g.,  ... 1 The picnic was interrupted by an untoward shower of rain; 


     [ "Untoward" ]

    2: 2 Inappropriate, improper or unseemly;

      * e.g.,  ... 2 Malcolm’s untoward advances were rewarded with a kick in the nuts; 


     [ "Untoward" ]

    3: 3 Unfavourable or adverse;

      * e.g.,  ... 3 Some prescription drugs have untoward side effects; 

     [ "untowards" ]

    1: Undesirable, immoral

      * e.g.,  ... Maybe you feel guilty about having done untowards. 

     [ "untoward interaction" ]

    1: a non-favorable, unruly, difficult or impossible to control interaction with someone you typically have some type of love relationship with, but due to conflicting feelings of both love & hate at the same time, the interaction has the potential to quickly spiral out of control.

      * e.g.,  ... Yeah, so Jane & I were in the parking lot, and the next thing I know, she's freaking out on me over some stupid comment. What an untoward interaction! 

     [ "nothing untoward" ]

    1: Nothing unaway from it, either.

      * e.g.,  ... If you ask a guy whether his cock "was a naughty boy" regarding a gal's vagina --- i.e., if he had sex with her --- he can truthfully answer dat said pillar of desire "did nothing untoward" regarding said chick's honey-hole, in dat he moved Mr. Happy straight in da derection --- I mean, direction --- of said love-tunnel, and so his eager schlong did indeed do nothing dat was "un-toward" --- i.e., heading further away from --- said luscious crotch-orifice. :P 

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