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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wayward
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stray/wayward curl (=hanging in an untidy way)
▪ Emily pushed back a stray curl.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wayward youth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aunt Sally left her personal estate of several hundred thousand dollars to a home for wayward Dalmatians.
▪ Leonie felt a momentary pang of compassion for her wayward granddaughter.
▪ The chemistry had been between them from the start, waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it.
▪ The dashboard sports a gash from wayward bicycle gears.
▪ They were both very smart and correct, but Grandad was a little more wayward.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wayward

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.

My wife is in a wayward mood.
--Shak.

Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.
--Fairfax.

Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?
--Keble. [1913 Webster] -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wayward

late 14c., shortening of aweiward "turned away," from way (adv.), shortening of away + -ward. Related: Waywardly; waywardness.

Wiktionary
wayward

a. 1 given to wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray 2 obstinate, contrary and unpredictable 3 (context sports English) not on target

WordNet
wayward

adj. resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse]

Wikipedia
Wayward

Wayward is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Lillian Day, Mateel Howe Farnham and Gladys Unger. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Pauline Frederick, John Litel, Margalo Gillmore and Burke Clarke. The film was released on February 19, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.

Usage examples of "wayward".

Tissaphernes, whirling quickly, slashed it viciously through the air almost faster than the eye could see, slicing off the head of the guard who had struck Asteria, as a gardener lops off a wayward branch from his fruit tree.

Then he had but to bring out the old romance book from the priory, with befingered cover of sheepskin and gold letters upon a purple ground, to entice her wayward mind back to the paths of learning.

In fact, my dear Christopher, I am confoundedly worried, the reason being that Cicely, ever wayward, has vanished into thin air.

The sinistrals could punish by closing down the assimilation gland of the wayward dextrier, killing its host and rendering it unable to take another, reducing it to a blind, clutching handthing, without a host through which to channel.

Jack, the wayward puppy and lastly at her injured duelist, all of whom stood in the open doorway.

All the misery of her worry for the wayward Sabrina came through in the huskiness of her voice.

As for Leon Leep, he displayed no curiosity beyond what his wife had told him about her wayward offspring.

How Leyne got himself those copies of police investigation records involving this wayward son of his back in the States, that said something about his reach too.

In its mild, slightly wayward northern course, Loblolly Road intersected two apparently anonymous streets before crossing a slightly wider road called Carriage Avenue.

Davis, the lovesick swam willing to pay a small fortune for the return of his wayward wife-to-be.

It was true that he had been a gifted chymist, maugre of his wayward character.

Combined with the soft weight of her in his arms, they sent a sudden surge to his wayward pego that was downright criminal.

A thousand bowed in approbation of the sentiment, and a rumor passed from mouth to mouth that a young noble was about to try his strength in the regatta, in compliment to some wayward beauty.

Perhaps if she wore her hair in a different style, but it was so curly and un tameable that there was little she could do with it other than to have it go its own wayward way.

He snatched up his plumed toque and, plopping it upon his graying head, rose to his feet, ready to storm after the wayward fellow.