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Example sentences for: untoward

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From time to time, mind you, someone spills a cup of cocoa onto the keyboard of a workstation and utters something untoward.
The same applies to untoward: the once-correct pronunciation unTOE\?\erd is dead and might as well be buried.
For the selection of the most promising candidate microbicides, it is important to compare not only their virus inhibitory and virucidal activities, but to also study their potential untoward effects.
Given the multiplicative interactions of risk factors for thromboembolic disease and the apparently untoward concurrence of two of them—the contraceptive pill and frequent road trips for the preceding 3 y—the rapid occurrence of the clinical event following initiation of the coxib suggests a causative link to the COX-2 inhibitor.
I often think that it would not be untoward for a dictionary to add to its entries for words that also serve as labels (e.g.