Example Sentences

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For someone with a Ph.D. in Labor Economics, the waywardness of jobs statistics is something he’s familiar with.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

His waywardness finally caught up with him, as he was in the church pews bunker left the fairway on the way to his first bogey of the day.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

They will realize the waywardness of their ways, and they’ll start dumping bitcoin and it will go into a death spiral.

From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2021

The other students, particularly the boys, were intimidated by Rahel’s waywardness and almost fierce lack of ambition.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy