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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an untoward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unexpected, inappropriate, or unfavorable, often in a negative context.
Example: "The meeting took an untoward turn when the topic of budget cuts was raised."
Alternatives: "an unfortunate" or "an undesirable".
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An AE was defined as an untoward medical event that occurred during the study period, whether or not related to the study procedure or study products.
300 An adverse event refers to an untoward occurrence during the trial, which may or may not be causally related to the intervention or other aspects of trial participation.
An adverse drug reaction is an untoward event presenting during drug treatment at doses normally used in humans and for which a causal relationship between the drug and the event is at least a reasonable possibility, according to the judgement of the reporting or reviewing health care professional.
But intensity of effort was not related to the likelihood of an untoward effect.
9.59am BST It's Mat Veveris, a handsome young man from Cairns with flyaway eyebrows and an untoward hat.
Presiding over the story is frequently a patriarchal figure who exerts an untoward power and dominance over the other characters.
But claiming that all Bertolucci has been trying to do "is lose his virginity again and again" is an untoward, overgeneralized assertion about Bertolucci the man.
After a long history of mental illness and dabblings in drugs and the occult, he came to an untoward end in 1930, apparently gassing himself in his apartment.
And what we know about very low inventories of any commodity is that if an untoward pressure, an unexpected pressure of demand, surges there is no buffer.
For perhaps the reason I feel self-conscious when a straight man makes an untoward display of affection towards me is because I rather like it.
Mr. Charlap, the pianist, has a sense of balance and form that's quite classical, and a list of American songs in his head that could mark him as someone with an untoward fascination for the past.
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