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1. wayward
adjective. ['ˈweɪwɝd'] resistant to guidance or discipline.
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ward (English)
- -weard (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- way (English)
- weg (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Rhymes with Wayward
- heyward
- hayward
Sentences with wayward
1. Adjective
This ensures the blades stay sharp and no wayward hairs clog up the mechanism.
2. Noun, singular or mass
It's better to remove wayward and weak branches when they are small than to prune away large limbs.
Quotes about wayward
1. Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
2. LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
3. Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea