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Keep "untowardly" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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9 total sentences available.
Those ruddy plumes, embrew′d with heavenly food, / When I would suck them, twine to driest coral; / And when I couch between her lily buds, / They surge like frothy water mounts above all: / Surely, they were all made unto good uses, / But she them all untowardly abuses.
Source: wiktionary
O day untowardly turned!
Source: wiktionary
[…] whenever my brains come to be dissected, you will perceive, without spectacles, that he has left a large uneven thread, as you sometimes see in an unsaleable piece of cambrick, running along the whole length of the web, and so untowardly, you cannot so much as cut out a * *, (here I hang up a couple of lights again)—or a fillet, or a thumb-stall, but it is seen or felt.
Source: wiktionary
“[…] I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include unfavorably.
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