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waywardness
[wey-werd] 
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disobedience
[dis-uh-bee-dee-uhns]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior; noncompliance with rules |
| Synonyms: | defiance, dereliction, disregard, indiscipline, infraction, infringement, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, intractableness, mutiny, neglect, nonobservance, perversity, rebellion, recalcitrance, refractoriness, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, unruliness, violation, waywardness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience, observance, submission |
| Main Entry: | mischief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, damage |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devilment, devilry, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, impishness, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, rascality, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, shenanigans, sportiveness, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience |
| Main Entry: | impishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, shenanigans, sportiveness, tomfoolery, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | mischievousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, impishness, injury, misbehavior, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, shenanigans, sportiveness, tomfoolery, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | obstinateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | assertiveness, disorderliness, fractiousness, heedlessness, impetuousness, imprudence, impulsiveness, indocility, intemperanc, intractability, intractableness, lawlessness, obstinacy, obstreperousness, orneriness, perverseness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recklessness, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, waywardness, wildness, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | obstreperousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | assertiveness, disorderliness, fractiousness, heedlessness, impetuousness, imprudence, impulsiveness, indocility, intemperanc, intractability, intractableness, lawlessness, obstinacy, obstinateness, orneriness, perverseness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recklessness, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, waywardness, wildness, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | prankishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, impishness, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, rascality, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, shenanigans*, sportiveness, tomfoolery, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prankster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devil, devilment, devilry, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, imp, impishness, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, rascal, rascality, rogue, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, scamp, shenanigans*, sportiveness, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quirkiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eccentricity |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
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