adjective
- Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
- usage: "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"
- synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly
- Contrary to your interests or welfare.
- usage: "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
- synonyms: adverse, inauspicious
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