froward
adjective
willfully contrary; not easily managed.
frowardness
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a word derived from
froward.
Example Sentences
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There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Rosebery's Administration was sterilized partly by his own unfamiliarity with Liberal sentiment, and partly by the frowardness of his colleagues.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
The mother excused and countenanced his frowardness, and the foolish father was obliged to give way.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
This was your frowardness, that provoked him, sister.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
It is nothing but a little sally of anger, like the frowardness of peevish children, who, when they cannot get all they would have, are resolved to take nothing.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
