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waywardness
noun as in disobedience
noun as in eccentricity
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noun as in impishness
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguery
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in mischief
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Strong matches
noun as in mischievousness
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguery
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in obstinateness
Weak matches
- 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
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in obstreperousness
Strong matches
noun as in prankishness
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- rascality
- roguery
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in prankster
Strong matches
noun as in quirkiness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in rascality
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- roguery
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in recalcitrance
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrancy
Strong matches
noun as in refractoriness
Strong matches
noun as in roguery
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in roguishness
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguery
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in shenanigan
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in singularity
noun as in uncontrollability
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in uncontrollableness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in ungovernableness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in unmanageability
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- untowardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in untowardness
Weak matches
- assertiveness
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- wildness
- willfulness
Example Sentences
Marian is delightful, with her waywardness and high-handedness; and Mrs. Owen likes originals, not feeble imitations.
It is better to see but little of me, and think the better, than grow weary of my waywardness on nearer acquaintance.
He must have been a rare contrast to the high-souled enthusiasm and waywardness of her own brother!
Sweetly it vibrated, her waywardness sunk in its swelling rhythm; its melody freighted with the treasure of her trust.
My expectations, however, were defeated by the waywardness of the dog, and I saw there was no hope of doing anything with him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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