"untowardly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1594, William Percy, Cœlia, Sonnet XII",
          "text": "Those ruddy plumes, embrew′d with heavenly food,\nWhen I would suck them, twine to driest coral;\nAnd when I couch between her lily buds,\nThey surge like frothy water mounts above all:\nSurely, they were all made unto good uses,\nBut she them all untowardly abuses.",
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        "In an untoward way."
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          "text": "1561, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), translated by Thomas Hoby, London: David Nutt, 1900, Book One, pp. 41-42,\nTo disgrace therefore many untowardly asseheades, that through malepertnes thinke to purchase them the name of a good Courtyer, I would have suche a pastime for this night, that one of the company myght bee picked out who should take in hand to shape in woordes a good Courtyer, specifying all suche condicions and particuler qualities, as of necessitie must be in hym that deserveth this name."
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          "text": "1791, George Washington, Letter to his niece, Harriot Washington, Philadelphia, 20 October, 1791,\nYour cousins, with whom you live, are well qualified to give you advice; and I am sure they will, if you are disposed to receive it. But, if you are disobliging, self-willed, and untowardly, it is hardly to be expected that they will engage themselves in unpleasant disputes with you […]"
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