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
More than once I have been obliged to save him from a difficulty into which the frowardness of his heroism had brought him!
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn
I nevermore will marvel, sirs, when one Of humblest parentage is prone to sin, Since those reputed men of noble strain Stoop to such phrase of prating frowardness.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
But the frowardness of Agrafena Ivanovna at times assumed extreme proportions; she was not of a mild temper, and somewhat too ready with her hands….
From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Be patient yet a while with our shortcomings and frowardness.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
