Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigDictionary
the untoward
adjective
Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
Exact(60)
Will her advice involve the untoward use of a rough towel, like another Guardian advice columnist?
Will her counsel involve the untoward use of a rough towel, like another Guardian advice columnist?
Then there are the untoward consequences of righteously following the law and penalising the law-breakers.
But birds were not the only group experiencing unusual fortunes from the untoward meteorological mix.
Lasix perpetuates substandard horsemanship, artificially suppressing the untoward result (bleeding) of inadequate preparation of the thoroughbred.
So you stop looking for, adjusting to, and correcting the untoward impulses that are in every last one of us.
Afterward it got ugly, as these things usually do, with a barrage of insider-trading and securities-fraud indictments and prison sentences for the untoward and the unlucky.
The most spectacular illustration of the untoward effect of overestimation was provided by the would-be star picture that adorned the catalog cover.
After six years on the job, he was accustomed to the untoward hours of police work and immediately left for the scene.
Lasix perpetuates this substandard horsemanship and at great cost to the horses, artificially suppressing the untoward result (bleeding) of inadequate preparation of the thoroughbred.
And even the hair of the ex-punk rawker has gone quite sensible, a modest bleached shock taking the place of the untoward and less-than-kempt flaming red dreadlocks that "graced" his head until recently.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com