How To Use Untoward In A Sentence
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Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
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The problem becomes more complicated when any untoward incident takes place in the Srinagar city or its vicinity.
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hits is hitting, felt that the head fierce ache, the skin pruritus hard to endure and so on untoward effect ..." Dr. Yang has opened some analgetic pill to her.
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They appeared to be unaware that anything untoward had taken place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
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The prophetesses peer into the future, and see nothing untoward, but they, too, dream and awake screaming.
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The dose can be increased slightly without any untoward effects.
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The band were very supportive and they knew they didn't have to do anything untoward.
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People always blame the legal system whenever something untoward happens.
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Those who test positive for the glucokinase mutation can usually stop treatment with no untoward consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keep in mind, fair Huffingtonians, that anything untowardly liberal is immediately removed from Free Republic.
Tom Watson: Freepers Hate Gonzales
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At midmonth, you may experience an untoward surprise involving money.
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Nature had moulded him so untowardly, that he was called all his life the Abbot Malotru; i.e. ill-shaped.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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In entertainment news, everyone - including his publicist - is concerned that Tom Cruise's cheese has slipped off his cracker, as he gambols about the country, behaving untowardly on Oprah, and setting up tents in Germany to convert onlookers to Scientology.
Ocean to ocean
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The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward.
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I'm not saying anything untoward did happen but that's got to raise a few eyebrows.
The Sun
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Why, exactly, unless he thought something untoward was happening?
Times, Sunday Times
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She was so concerned about her unborn baby, she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.
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There was a barely perceptible pause, and then the meeting continued as if nobody had said anything untoward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Detectives would also like to hear from anyone who may have noticed anything untoward around the train station at any time.
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My buddy told me that Abe was livid with anger, but he hid it, and continued to talk to Barney as though nothing untoward had been said!
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Untoward events, natural or deliberate, such as those due to terrorism or biowarfare may appear simultaneously in multiple locations.
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It does not suggest that something untoward is afoot.
Christianity Today
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Tampering with a single enzyme can lead to untoward effects elsewhere.
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Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
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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.
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When the accuser was interviewed by the child services organization and he denied any kind of untoward conduct by Michael Jackson, a critical document ...
CNN Transcript May 28, 2004
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But even there I think I would be puzzled by any use that wasn't both negated and predicative, which is not the case with the hardier "untoward".
Waste
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It has been said that Mr. Slope, as he started for Ullathorne, received a dispatch from his friend Mr. Towers, which had the effect of putting him in that high good humour which subsequent events somewhat untowardly damped.
Barchester Towers
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They also review the theoretic mechanisms by which preemptive analgesia might desensitize the nervous system and thereby reduce pain perception and other untoward effects that can persist far beyond the recovery period.
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Unfortunately, the candle had untoward consequences: it ignited the plastic and started a small fire in the electrical circuits.
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As he told it, his swoon was a mere untoward incident and hindrance in a spiritual drama, the thrill of which, while he described it, passed even to her.
Robert Elsmere
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And litigation only occurs if people figure out that something untoward is going on — with personalized search results, you may never know what comes up when other people search for your name.
Archive 2009-10-01
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The last thing he needs before he goes up before the beak is anything untoward during the 90 minutes in Basel.
The Sun
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Almost of the untoward things going on right now were absolutely predictable and unpreventable once we launched the war.
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made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions
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I think they're very guarded and very alert to anything that they think might be untoward or suspicious.
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I myself have felt no untoward effects, other than glowing in the dark and having x-ray vision in one eye.
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Tampering with a single enzyme can lead to untoward effects elsewhere.
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She made no complaints about the symptoms she is now describing, not even sleeplessness, nor was anything untoward observed.
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According to the organisers, no untoward incident happened during the five-day exposition.
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However, the steady, stable nature of the industry means shareholders receive few untoward profit surprises.
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Any untoward effects appear first in this sensitive age group.
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But the mother looked mournfully upon him, and wished he had not come, and could not believe that a life which commenced so untowardly would ever be anything better than a burden to her, and a misfortune and misery to himself.
Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
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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.
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Unfortunately, prognostic error may have untoward effects on both patient care and social policy.
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She has also proposed, however, that untoward effects may emerge when this blending is absent.
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You're obviously pretty confident nothing untoward is going to be happening in front of your webcam at these intervals!
Webcam as Memex
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an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened
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Not until Mister Haggin abruptly picked him up under one arm and stepped into the sternsheets of the waiting whaleboat, did Jerry dream that anything untoward was to happen to him.
Chapter 1
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moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
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Sometimes the request hangs fire, or the fulfilment is delayed, with untoward consequences.
THE WHALE TOOTH
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There's absolutely no chance of anything untoward happening here.
The Sun
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Every ones natural genius should be carryd as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaisterd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
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The head teachers reported no untoward problems on Friday, with results e-mailed through to the schools on schedule.
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Tampering with a single enzyme can lead to untoward effects elsewhere.
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They frequently learn from unbred or debauched servants, such language, untowardly tricks and vices, as otherwise they would be ignorant of all their lives.
Pamela
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The animals did not show any untoward effect during the trial and post trial phases.
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He must avoid all untoward acts, such as quarreling and haggling.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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Horses Mouth February 22, 2007 4:57 PM
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A police patrol car cruised by slowly a couple of times, but on that particular afternoon, there were no signs of any untoward behaviour.
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It was the only untoward incident in an otherwise sportingly contested local derby.
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People roamed the streets, drove their cars, popped into a cafe for a coffee - nothing visibly untoward or unusual.
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Horses Mouth February 22, 2007 4:57 PM
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Horses Mouth February 22, 2007 4:57 PM
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No suggestion of anything untoward there.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a brief statement, the museum's communications department stressed that untoward incidents have been few and far between during the run of what it described as a heavily trafficked show.
NYT > Home Page
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He came to his senses thinking of the one little item which could be described as untoward -- thinking of Hilda, and Hilda engaged to be married to Fred
The Slave of the Lamp
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Another factor causing untoward proliferation of spreadsheet files is the need to analyse the same information in different ways.
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I assumed this untoward behaviour indicated that we had previously met.
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A man would be lewd with, or proposition, or tell an untoward joke toward a female.
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And, if the rich person did something 'untoward', should she have to pay just because of that?
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Something untoward must have happened, and he wasn't answering his phone.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He says: 'It could be that a pattern of behaviour on an account suggests something untoward is happening.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward.
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Interference during the process of labor and birth and distractions during the short early period afterward can have significant untoward effects.
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But that does not mean that anything untoward happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Parker goes on to say she's not at all suggesting anything "untoward," which seems obvious.
Taylor Marsh: McCain's Crush
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Nothing untoward, though one hapless guest mistook the cart path across the golf course for the exit drive.
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The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward.
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There was no hint of anything untoward.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the underacted release and no evidence of any untoward outcomes, I'm sorry to say, their logic is flawed.
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
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But I do not wish to recall this particularly to your minds except for this reason, that I never saw an untoward event taken with so much unselfish good sportsmanship - (applause) - as was shown on that occasion by the Toronto Argonauts, who at Stockholm set an example in sportsmanship to all the nations who went to the Olympic games.
Empire Sport
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It might have been better for him not to have married; but now that he was married, and that things had brought him untowardly to this pass, he knew that his wife's safety was his first duty.
Can You Forgive Her?
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Untoward circumstances prevent me from being with you on this festive occasion.
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There, with fewest possible sentences, the clergyman announced that he now accepted him and would, therefore, carry out the promise with regard to the bequeathal of his property to him in the event of any untoward circumstances arising later.
The Human Chord
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Others in the press corps didn't think there was anything untoward about giving political advice to Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson.
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Most undiscriminating eyes won't notice anything untoward.
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She came over and said something untoward.
The Sun
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Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow.
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The dose can be increased slightly without any untoward effects.
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About 500000 untoward incidents occurred in tramming operations annually.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Untoward circumstances prevent me from being with you on this festive occasion.
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Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow.
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She said: ‘Huntley gave a very, very specific reply that he would be reporting it to myself as his line manager or to the principal if anything was untoward.’
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He never gave less than one hundred per cent, and while he had the physical capacity to take very good care of himself whatever the situation, I never knew him to engage in untoward or unsporting tactics.
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You always know that when things look as though they are going swimmingly something untoward will happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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They appeared to be unaware that anything untoward had taken place.
Times, Sunday Times
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We fought these untoward events with and conquered, but it cut into our provision reserve.
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Did party bosses know of untoward behaviour?
The Sun
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In November, 1789, Dr. Jenner inoculated his eldest child Edward, aged 18 months, with some swinepox virus, and as nothing untoward happened, he inoculated him again with swinepox on April 7, 1791.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915
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All the 'ill luck' -- that is, the untoward circumstances of the year, would be ascribed to the accident of a person with light hair having been the first to enter a dwelling on the mornings referred to.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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Even the youngish people around me seemed untowardly geeky and uncool, like their mothers had dressed them all.
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It's pretty clear that nothing untoward precipitated the disintegration of the Columbia spaceshuttle upon its re-entry.
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That's the plan—unless anything untoward happens.
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I have already had a shot fired over my bows from a mega-mining type, not untoward but the nastiest are the most subtle.
Toronto Star Previews AR4 « Climate Audit
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A single untoward remark or social misstep by any family member can sink a prospective marriage; failed negotiations in turn put the family reputation - and thus the marriageability of every family member - at risk.
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The dose can be increased slightly without any untoward effects.
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But, unfortunately, should any untoward "o'er-night clishmaclaver" occasion the neglect of this duty, and the fire be left, like envy, to feed upon its own vitals, a remedy is at hand in the shape of a pan "o 'live coals" from some more provident neighbour, resident in an upper or lower "flat;" and thus without bundle-wood or "shavings," is the mischief cured.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
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Edward, aged 18 months, with some swinepox virus, and as nothing untoward happened, he inoculated him again with swinepox on April 7, 1791.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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Nothing untoward has happened over there, only two of the men have spent a night in the ‘slammer’, and another one has been held captive by a Bangkok ladyboy - nothing strange there then.
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Jones called charges that the e-mails involve any "untoward" activity "ludicrous", and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research stated that the skeptics have selectively quoted words and phrases out of context in an attempt to sabotage the Copenhagen global climate summit in December.
Janet Ritz: The Consequences of Climategate
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They frequently learn from unbred or debauched servants, such language, untowardly tricks and vices, as otherwise they would be ignorant of all their lives.
Pamela
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They were guilty of not advertising that anything untoward was afoot, although they did steal glances up to their captain straining through the binoculars.
THE KANAKA SURF
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If the latter, it may be tactically advantageous to reassure the judge that you can prevail without your proposed rule producing the kind of untoward results implicit in the question.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Answering Questions at Oral Argument:
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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.
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All the bags in the hold of the aircraft were removed and re-scanned, although nothing untoward was detected.
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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.
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Strangely enough, neither manager heard or saw anything untoward because they were both so gripped by the action on the pitch.
The Sun
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Besides the huge medical waste, the untoward effects of using antibiotics is increasing rapidly.
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Unfortunately, the candle had untoward consequences: it ignited the plastic and started a small fire in the electrical circuits.
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If this investigation should unearth anything untoward, payments could be stopped.
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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.
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There was a barely perceptible pause, and then the meeting continued as if nobody had said anything untoward.
Times, Sunday Times
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In their self-assessments, the candidates also have the opportunity to record any untoward events and their impressions of the incident for future evaluation.
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Even the talentless have fled, such as K.L., a lady so untowardly cynical, with legs waxed to reflective gloss, who moved to West Palm Beach.
The venitius command
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It does not suggest that something untoward is afoot.
Christianity Today
