froward
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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
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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
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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