[
UK
/wˈeɪwəd/
]
[ US /ˈweɪwɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪwɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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resistant to guidance or discipline
a perverse mood
Mary Mary quite contrary
wayward behavior
an obstinate child with a violent temper
How To Use wayward In A Sentence
- The master feel good mind manipulator is saddened by her wayward "Jesus" and must come reining down to spread her pixie dust and re-christen the Annointed One. Oprah Winfrey to tape Christmas special at the White House
- Steve's new mechanic mate causes ructions in the Lewis household - not least with wayward teenager Hannah.
- His wayward behaviour became part of theatrical lore. Times, Sunday Times
- It was the elder son, he said, who just could not accept the generosity and graciousness of his father in welcoming back a lost and wayward brother.
- As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
- The door was unmarked and completely blank except for a single word written in a dark red script: Wayward.
- Oak and beech trees line many of the fairways, waiting to punish wayward drives. Times, Sunday Times
- Then in the next instant she groaned inwardly, cursing her wayward thoughts.
- The batsmen were also helped by some wayward bowling with 61 extras, including 40 wides, being conceded.
- Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I