waywardness
1waywardness — index delinquency (misconduct) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2waywardness — wayward ► ADJECTIVE ▪ self willed and unpredictable; perverse. DERIVATIVES waywardly adverb waywardness noun. ORIGIN shortening of obsolete awayward «turned away» …
3Waywardness — Wayward Way ward, a. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned away. See {Away}, and { ward}.] Taking one s own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. [1913 Webster] My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. [1913 Webster] Wayward beauty doth… …
4waywardness — noun see wayward …
5waywardness — See waywardly. * * * …
6waywardness — noun the quality of being wayward …
7waywardness — way·ward·ness || weɪwÉ™(r)dnɪs n. changeability, perverseness; irregularity …
8waywardness — way·ward·ness …
9waywardness — n unmanageableness, unruliness, stubbornness, obstinacy, wilfulness, perverseness, perversity, contrariness, disobedience, rebelliousness, insubordination FORMAL obduracy, contumacy ≠ tractableness …
10wayward — [[t]we͟ɪwə(r)d[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe a person or their behaviour as wayward, you mean that they behave in a selfish, bad, or unpredictable way, and are difficult to control. ...wayward children with a history of severe… …
