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Example sentences for: untoward

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Now of course conduit and untoward are not words common in everyday conversation, so it is hardly surprising that when people have to say them for the first time they guess the pronunciation from the spelling, always a dangerous procedure in English.
Not wanting to get my hopes up, or embarrass her with untoward advances, I found myself--after she had already quit her job--standing in front of her cubicle.
The same applies to untoward: the once-correct pronunciation unTOE\?\erd is dead and might as well be buried.
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.
From time to time, mind you, someone spills a cup of cocoa onto the keyboard of a workstation and utters something untoward.