wayward
adjective
turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient.
waywardness
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a word derived from
wayward.
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
Ultimately, though, the author torques her contrarianism past trolling, past knee-jerk philosophizing and past satire, alchemizing a critique of literary culture in all its ideological waywardness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
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
