All 4 Uses of
untoward
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- As a result, all day long in school I sat perpetually alert, fearing for the untoward to happen.†
Story 1.9 *untoward = improper, awkward, or unfavorable
- Eugene felt untoward visions churning, the Spaniard with his great knees bent and his black slippers turning as if on a wheel's rim, dancing in a red smoky place with a lead-heavy alligator.†
Story 3.31
- Out there, nuns, swept by untoward blasts of wind, shrieked soundlessly as in nightmares in the corridors.†
Story 4.35
- But Mr. Ugone, with his untoward respect for Poldy, went on above all confusion.†
Story 4.39