wild-headed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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"Goodness sakes! you don't expect me t' ride after that wild-headed critter, do you?"
From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin
Socially, as the rather wild-headed daughter of an impoverished and obscure Earl, she could do but little.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
Hillars was a wild-headed fellow, and, if at liberty, was not incapable of creating a disturbance.
From Arms and the Woman by MacGrath, Harold
He was a gray, wild-headed animal, made of spring steel.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
A pragmatical man, taken along with an inconsiderate man, and then a wild-headed man added on to them, are three about as fatal hands as any truth could fall into.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
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