1483 Cov. Leet Bk. 511 Not beyng content with such answer [he] desired a copy of þat Evidence,..&..other vntowardly wordes there vttered.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. ii. 3 Little doubt but Augustus, complaining of the yong mans vntowardly behauior, caused his exile to be confirmed.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 70 [Children] frequently learn from unbred or debauched Servants..untowardly Tricks and Vices.

1561 T. Hoby Breef Rehersall in tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer sig. Zz.iii Not to be haughtie, enuious,..contentious nor vntowardlye.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 427 If they [sc. children] prooue vntowardly and giuen to lewdnesse, what greater griefe can happen to a man?

a1678 H. Scougal Disc. Imp. Subj. (1735) 193 Sad and heavy looks, morose and untowardly deportment.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 442. ⁋3 The Serene or Cloudy, Jovial or Melancholy, Untowardly or Easy [Temper].

1791 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XII. 85 If you are disobliging, self-willed, and untowardly, it is hardly to be expected that they will engage themselves in unpleasant disputes with you.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Ay, he's..an unto'artly yowth, is Joe.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 146 b That rawe and ragged clause whych ye haue vntowardly torne out of hys xxi. homely.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 159 No man shal go so vntowardly, but he shal euery day get some ground, though it be but litle.

1576 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo 105 Their cloathes doe sit vppon them so vntowardly.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. ix. 281 Generally the most dexterous in spiritual matters are left-handed in temporall businesse, and go but untowardly about them.

1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 56 He play'd well, and yet methinks he held his Lute but untowardly.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 190 They rig their Ships but untowardly,..and are as meanly furnished with Warlike Provisions.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxxiii. 132 A large uneven thread..running along the whole length of the web, and so untowardly, you cannot so much as cut out..a fillet.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. ix. 23 There is no scripture from whence he attempts to deduce it, as he doth the time of the latter rain, though very untowardly.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 352 If there be any such land that lyes so untowardly.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 262 As he lept out of his ship,..he fell so vntowardly, that the blood brast out of his nose.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (ii. 8) Least this Prophecie should bee spoken in vayne, yea and untowardly concerning the largenesse of dominion.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 121 O day vntowardly turned! View more context for this quotation

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 108 Which as many as use, worke their own..destruction, dauncing..a daunce untowardly about a pits brinke.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Introd. 2 Mr. B. here seems to enter upon his work a little untowardly and ominously.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 35 There were some propensions and aversions,..which if disobeyed succeeded untowardly and unsuccessefully.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 26 The Prior swore things went very untowardly against them.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 180 Such barley..will come away very untowardly in the malting.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xviii. 341 If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. View more context for this quotation

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 269 On his death-bed he..sent urgently for the clergyman, who untowardly happened to be from home.