waywardness

Example Sentences

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For someone with a Ph.D. in Labor Economics, the waywardness of jobs statistics is something he’s familiar with.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

His waywardness finally caught up with him, as he was in the church pews bunker left the fairway on the way to his first bogey of the day.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Ultimately, though, the author torques her contrarianism past trolling, past knee-jerk philosophizing and past satire, alchemizing a critique of literary culture in all its ideological waywardness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

With his wide forehead and a broad, elastic face, he is an actor of unusual precision, but there’s a vein of waywardness to him, too, a wildness only barely contained.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

The other students, particularly the boys, were intimidated by Rahel’s waywardness and almost fierce lack of ambition.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy