untoward
/un-TORD/adjectiveunexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient
“The launch passed without any untoward incident.”
- Synonyms
- unexpected, unseemly, adverse
- Antonyms
- expected, appropriate
- Memory hook
- un + toward: turned the wrong way.
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