How to Use untoward in a Sentence

untoward

adjective

• There was nothing untoward about his appearance.
• The Dodgers are the only team in the history of any sport never to do anything untoward.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2021
• But the clothes came off too quickly for anything untoward to make contact.
  — Sarah-Jane Stratford, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2015
• Anything untoward is marked for the attention of a handful of senior medics who patrol the area in green scrubs.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• As of Wednesday evening, the team found nothing untoward, Ludeman said.
  — Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2017
• Countless people say the same thing in passing, and there’s nothing untoward about it.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
• But there is something untoward in his pep talks to her, where his hand possibly lingers a little too long on her knee.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• Dictated by the car and not the mileage, these visits have revealed nothing untoward.
  — Beth Nichols, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2022
• So his reaction is, No one will ever be able to say that there was something untoward.
  — The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• There wouldn’t be anything untoward about such an outcome.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
• Even a few untoward remarks like this to students can have profound effects.
  — Barbara Oakley, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• Sessions and his spokesperson each denied there was anything untoward about the meetings, or about his statement to the Senate.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 10 July 2017
• The strategy works most of the time until something untoward happens.
  — Chris Farrell, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• The odds of coming across a driver that is doing something untoward is seemingly quite high.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The lesson should be: If bad peers are applying untoward pressure, find better peers.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
• Until bad bosses have to worry about being sent off the pitch, their untoward actions are unlikely to stop.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• But he has been suspended six times for untoward acts, and was fined earlier this season for diving.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2018
• This is not all that uncommon Bob so will not be seen as untoward whatsoever.
  — Samantha Nolan, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• But if that hive is full of Japanese honey bees, the bees will play it cool, like nothing untoward is happening, until the hornet enters the hive.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2020
• In the past year, Musk has gotten into a lot of trouble over his erratic and untoward behavior on the social media site.
  — Rani Molla, Vox, 18 June 2019
• Whether cruising along or at full-stomp, the 10-speed auto shifted smoothly and crisply with no untoward hiccups, hunting or clunking.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• Modi had asked people to switch off lights—leading to a grid failure, nothing untoward happened.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 5 Apr. 2020
• The toilets are available 24 hours a day, staffed to deter untoward activities, and are cleaned daily.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said there was nothing untoward or undemocratic in the process under way.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2018
• Nurse gave a brief answer after Game 6, saying his coaching staff didn’t do anything untoward.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
• Alvina Vasquez, a spokeswoman for Democratic Colorado, would not say who was funding the group and insisted there was nothing untoward about the ads.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• Black women have received untoward commentary about our hair texture, our hairstyle choices, and our hair loss for a very long time now.
  — Aley Arion, Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
• His supporters say there's nothing untoward about a chairman being briefed by his staff.
  — Manu Raju, Jeremy Herb and Laura Jarrett, CNN, 4 May 2018
• Dixon has also has embraced disproven theories that fraud and untoward efforts by Democratic officeholders tipped the election to Biden.
  — Henry J. Gomez, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• There are scenes of idyllic beauty, of realistic terror, of quaint humor and broad cartoon comedy succeeding each other so smoothly as to give a sense of great variety, and of no untoward length anywhere.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024