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1
given to resisting authority or another's control
- tried to reason with the untoward child
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2
given to resisting control or discipline by others
- a program for untoward teenagers that is designed to give them the kind of discipline that their parents were unable or unwilling to administer
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3
opposed to one's interests
- achieved great success as an artist despite growing up in a very untoward milieu
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- damaging,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- fatal,
- harmful,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- injurious,
- lethal,
- malignant,
- murderous,
- noxious,
- pernicious,
- poisonous,
- ruinous,
- threatening,
- troublesome,
- unhealthy,
- wounding
- dangerous,
- hazardous,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- parlous,
- perilous,
- risky,
- unsafe
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4
not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation
- unfortunately, one of the symptoms of dementia can be a tendency to make untoward and often shocking remarks
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- acceptable,
- adequate,
- all right,
- decent,
- fine,
- OK
- (or okay),
- passable,
- respectable,
- satisfactory,
- tolerable
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The first known use of untoward was in 1526
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