Read full poem →Or whilst on trees they sit and sing,
Some untoward boy at them do fling,
Or whilst allured with bell and glass,
Dictionary Entry
Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
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Common Phrases
effects untowardcircumstances untowardevent untowardreactions untowardevents untowardincident untowarduntoward anyuntoward nothing
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Poetry examples for “untoward”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I would have been as great as George Eliot
But for an untoward fate.
For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit,