inopportuneformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inconvenience
a pain (in the neck)idiom
a pain in the arse/backsideidiom
aggravation
aggro
awkward
bother
bulky
disturbance
fuss
hassle
have fun and gamesidiom
imposition
incommode
more trouble than it's worthidiom
nuisance
palaver
pinprick
tempest
untimely
untowardly

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Not expected or planned

untoward | American Dictionary

untoward
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈtɔrd, -ˈtoʊrd, -təˈwɔrd/
not expected, not convenient, or not suitable:
I was nervous about what he might do, but nothing untoward happened.

Examples of untoward

untoward
Thus, it is possible that polynomial-time queries are computed in exponential-time, that is, it is possible to get untoward exponential time resolution.
Would there be any untoward chromosomal effects from such a therapy?
Despite the harsh rhetoric, there were few untoward incidents, and election observers were unanimous in commending the peaceful mood.
The theory is elegant, but it immediately entails two untoward theses.
I was skeptical of the vaso-vagal explanation for all untoward events.
Fear of causing untoward events excludes many elderly patients who would benefit from exercise therapy.
This castelike exclusion puts the secular therapist in an untoward position even before commencement of the therapeutic sessions.
Even when the foreign banks held plenty of silver, they may be chary to lend it when some untoward event takes place.
Like other traditional chemotherapeutic agents, cisplatin has untoward side-effects (nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity, and neuropathy) and clinical drug resistance does occur.
Such interventions may not change parents' general unfavorable life circumstances, but they may equip parents with better parenting and discipline skills despite their untoward situation.
Those who gave up driving after 80 years-of-age were the most likely to have felt untoward effects, both men and women.
In the event, there were few immediate untoward consequences from this episode.
If the patient improved and recovered without experiencing any untoward adverse events, the management was deemed successful, no matter what the financial cost was.
On the basis of the clinical course, together with electrocardiograms and stress tests, no untoward effects can be documented in such patients.
It was also shown by monitoring vaccinated cattle that no untoward interactions with a variety of other animal health products occurred.
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