Untoward has a number of different meanings, three of the commonest uses are as follows:-
1 Unexpected and inconvenient;
2 Inappropriate, improper or unseemly;
3 Unfavourable or adverse;
1 Unexpected and inconvenient;
2 Inappropriate, improper or unseemly;
3 Unfavourable or adverse;
1 The picnic was interrupted by an untoward shower of rain;
2 Malcolm’s untoward advances were rewarded with a kick in the nuts;
3 Some prescription drugs have untoward side effects;
2 Malcolm’s untoward advances were rewarded with a kick in the nuts;
3 Some prescription drugs have untoward side effects;
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• untouchable
• unto
• untelligent
• Untermensch
• Unteachable
• unternet
• untethered
• untied
• untold
1 Something that someone tells you and they can't prove it.
2 Unable to substantiate with solid evidence.
3 unprovable
2 Unable to substantiate with solid evidence.
3 unprovable
Example 1
Teacher: Give me your homework.
Student: Here's my homework; (pretends to hand it over) I wrote it on magic paper that only wizards can see and touch.
Teacher: That excuse is untenable. You still get a zero and detention.
Example 2
Person A: I'm telling you; Jesus really exists in the communion wafers of the Eucharist. Transubstantiation is irrefutable because sacred scripture and church doctrine supports it.
Person B: No, That's not irrefutable, that claim is untenable! The church has no palpable proof themselves, only St. Thomas Aquinas's word games. All that faith in your head has mushed the brain out of your ears.
Person A: Heathen! You know in your heart that God is real and that he loves you!
Person B: That's also untenable. But I'm not saying that I can prove you to be wrong.
Teacher: Give me your homework.
Student: Here's my homework; (pretends to hand it over) I wrote it on magic paper that only wizards can see and touch.
Teacher: That excuse is untenable. You still get a zero and detention.
Example 2
Person A: I'm telling you; Jesus really exists in the communion wafers of the Eucharist. Transubstantiation is irrefutable because sacred scripture and church doctrine supports it.
Person B: No, That's not irrefutable, that claim is untenable! The church has no palpable proof themselves, only St. Thomas Aquinas's word games. All that faith in your head has mushed the brain out of your ears.
Person A: Heathen! You know in your heart that God is real and that he loves you!
Person B: That's also untenable. But I'm not saying that I can prove you to be wrong.
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Why did you drop Dr. Sweet's class?" "Because he failed me." "Why did he fail you?!" "Because he brought me to the front of class, pointed to 'Untied States of America' in my paper, and asked me to point on a map where this country was." "Wow you're an idiot for not proofreading!
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Was in the toilet naked about to get in the shower when I hear the door smash open so I turn and see nothing. Next thing I know I felt something moist and wet in my asshole I quickly turn and saw my roommate with his head under my ass with his hands behind his back screaming - patty eaten and buns untouched!!! The whole sorority then started chanting it.
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(as quoted from TV critic Charlie Brooker)
(as quoted from TV critic Charlie Brooker)
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