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are untoward
adjective
Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
Exact(2)
"There will be intelligence sources coming from security and from cleaning for example - these are functional areas that have been involved in anti-doping in previous games, we will be educating those personnel in those functional areas so that if they should come across behaviours that are untoward they share that information with us".
Are untoward incidents (deaths, suicides, physical violence committed or experienced by patients) more frequent in either approach?
Similar(56)
When she goes out she scans faces for anyone she senses is untoward.
"I never saw anything that was untoward whatsoever in 40 years".
His investors remain anonymous.None of this is untoward in its own right.
I certainly didn't instruct anyone to do anything at the time or anything else which was untoward".
"I certainly didn't instruct anyone to do anything at the time, or anything else that was untoward".
"In the past, if anything happened that was untoward, it was either covered up, like the Mau Mau, or buried till kingdom come.
It would not be untoward for a court to interpret 'contingent' to mean 'contingent upon improvement".' Efforts to limit contingent-fee agreements have not been successful.
However, to reposition yourself to snag the first taxi is untoward, and your use of the word "intercepted" suggests that you concur.
"Even to this day, we have no definitive proof that he diverted the medications" or that any patient deaths were untoward, Ms. Schantz said.
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