Sentence examples for be untoward from inspiring English sources

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.

It at least suggests a nascent anxiety: that to appreciate the music in a direct and visceral or even emotional way would be untoward for the effete, urbane listener.

"The only time I remember David talking to me about that," Mr. Farrell said last week, "was when he mentioned to me that his wife was working there and he had to be very careful, because he didn't want to do anything that would appear to be untoward".

Access to antimalarials in the African region is unabated resulting in unwarranted self-medication practices whose net result may be untoward effects such as toxicity [2, 3].

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.

However, to reposition yourself to snag the first taxi is untoward, and your use of the word "intercepted" suggests that you concur.