UNTOWARD in a Sentence

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For UNTOWARD, below is one of 12 sentences:
You're obviously pretty confident nothing untoward is going to be happening in front of your webcam at these intervals!

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 Meanings and Examples of UNTOWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
untoward
 a.  contrary to your interests or welfare; inconvenient; troublesome
Classic Sentence:
1  He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He took the strings of the stays in his hands and jerked them so hard that she cried out, frightened, humiliated, embarrassed at such an untoward performance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
3  It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
4  She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  It was necessary to choose some less untoward hour than ten o'clock at night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
6  Her efforts in this line, however, were brought to an abrupt close by an untoward accident, which quenched her ardor.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  He has a sullen, rebellious spirit; a violent temper; and an untoward, intractable disposition.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
8  Whether the type is a type originating at birth, or a type resulting from untoward circumstances in later life, it is impossible to say.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
9  This untoward result was not reached all at once, but like other similar results, by gradual steps.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
Example Sentence:
1  Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
2  The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward.
3  You're obviously pretty confident nothing untoward is going to be happening in front of your webcam at these intervals!