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froward

[froh-werd, froh-erd] / ˈfroʊ wərd, ˈfroʊ ərd /


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Two of them — 6-2 froward Autumn Newby from Baylor and 5-6 guard Alexis Morris from Texas A&M — are starters.

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 2022

“Before we were stepping froward, now we’re stepping back,” a supporter named Katherine King told me.

From The New Yorker Nov. 9, 2016

"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"

From Time Magazine Archive

But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees."

From Time Magazine Archive

Forbear, fond maid, that froward step to take, For life can cure the ills that love may make; But for the harm of death is no repair.'

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges




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