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wayward
adjective as in contrary, unmanageable
Weak matches
- aberrant
- arbitrary
- balky
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- disobedient
- disorderly
- fickle
- flighty
- fractious
- froward
- immoral
- inconstant
- incorrigible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- refractory
- restive
- self-indulgent
- self-willed
- stubborn
- uncompliant
- undependable
- ungovernable
- unpredictable
- unstable
- variable
- whimsical
- willful
Example Sentences
Neither did his second start, his Dodger Stadium debut a second consecutive blur of wayward pitches, walks, hits and runs.
The Briton broke first in the second set, a nicely angled backhand forcing the error from Lamens, but she immediately surrendered the break with a wayward service game.
More creative craft saw him to recover from another wayward drive on 14, hitting another iron out of the pinestraw and through hooded branches to escape with a par.
"There is a new imperative in New Zealand on the cultural front, the necessity to address and correct Treaty overreach that has increasingly and evidently become wayward and wrong," she said.
The company’s aesthetic mode is wayward, oblique, loose and jocular.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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