Word Meanings - UNTOWARDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.

Related words: (words related to UNTOWARDLY)

• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• PERVERSENESS
  The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• FROWARD
  Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn.
• PERVERSED
  Turned aside.
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• PERVERSEDLY
  Perversely.
• PERVERSELY
  In a perverse manner.
• UNTOWARD
  Toward. Gower.
• LOCKED-JAW
  See LOCKJAW
• TRICKSINESS
  The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
• PERVERSE
  p.p. of pervertereto turn around, to overturn: cf. F. pervers. See 1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. The only righteous in a word perverse. Milton. 2. Obstinate in the wrong;
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• UNDERLOCKER
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• SLOCK; SLOCKEN
  To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
• NOVICESHIP
  The state of being a novice; novitiate.
• LANDLOCKED
  Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. (more info) 1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.
• ENFROWARD
  To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. Sir E. Sandys.