wayward
adjective
old-fashioned uk
/ˈweɪ.wəd/ us
/ˈweɪ.wɚd/Meaning of wayward in English
(Definition of wayward from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
wayward | American Dictionary
wayward
adjective
us
/ˈweɪ·wərd/Examples of wayward
wayward
But the mileage covered is so great and the argument so wayward, that the essay fails to convince.
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While he appreciated chemists' labor and skill in harnessing nature, he could not endorse the discourse of chemical philosophy that was open to wayward interpretations.
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The larger the space the more wayward can be the reception of the acousmatic image.
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But these moments always pass, the ensemble seemingly uninterested in the wayward cello.
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Even in the completed marriage parallelogram, wayward movement backward as well as forward is still apparent; elements keep reappearing to demand combination, and issue.
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It is a device for counteracting the fleeting and selective nature of wayward aural attentiveness and memory during the sounding flow of music.
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In some ways it is original and (especially in its coverage of idiom) exceptional; in other ways it appears unhelpfully idiosyncratic and wayward.
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It was found that there is one personality that performs better than the average: the wayward personality.
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Such practice was quite common when disciplining wayward preachers.
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Players had to temper the wayward intonation of the natural harmonic series and to sharpen their techniques to meet the demands of composers and discriminating listeners.
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The modern perspective entailed a master narrative that enabled us to trace the troubling departures of the interwar period to backwardness or wayward divergence from putatively normal modern development.
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Radcliffe had not given any thought to the possibility of rivers changing course; a serious lapse in a province whose rivers were notoriously wayward.
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To say that chance rules the universe is therefore to say that contingency governs cognition; our knowing continuously struggles to make sense of an elusive and wayward reality.
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Nothing here turns out as we might expect it to: not the musical implications of the wayward material, and certainly not the meanings to which these give rise.
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Chapter 7, the fourth chapter of section 2, enters into a history of experimental knowledge and attempts to control 'the wayward influences of chance' (p. 160).
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ters, sağı solu belli olmayan, dik başlı…
rebelle…
eigenzinnig…
vzpurný…
egenrådig, uberegnelig…
suka memberontak…
เอาแต่ใจ, ดื้อดึง, หัวแข็ง…
ương ngạnh…
krnąbrny…
egensinnig, trilsk…
degil, keras hati…
eigensinnig…
egensindig, oppsetsig…
свавільний, примхливий…
своенравный, своевольный…
