untoward

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNTO'WARD, adjective 1. Froward; perverse; refractory; not easily guided or taught. Acts 2:40. 2. Awkward; ungraceful; as untoward words. 3. Inconvenient; troublesome; unmanageable; as an untoward vow.
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