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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
Walmart was founded by her wayward cousin after stealing a bunch of the family’s pigs and running away with the money.
With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for best picture, director, original screenplay and editing.
He is hired by a faded actress to retrieve her wayward daughter, a job that takes him to the Florida Keys.
There is, he said, a circular nature to his legal battle with Trump and his work to thwart the wayward president’s unprecedented power grab.
From there, England's bowling was too often wayward and rarely threatening.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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