froward
adjective
willfully contrary; not easily managed.
frowardly
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a word derived from
froward.
Example Sentences
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They refuse still to return, Ephraim-like, going on frowardly in the way of their own heart.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
From Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley
Thus may you plainely perceiue the successe of my fift and last voiage to Virginia, which was no lesse vnfortunately ended then frowardly begun, and as lucklesse to many, as sinister to my selfe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
Bugles sang cheerily; mules, linked in fives, were being zigzagged frowardly down to water.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
"No," frowardly responded the young man, "I sing no more, when my princess no longer listens!"
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
