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How to use wayward in a sentence

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He drinks in his mess, is coarsely sarcastic at home, neglects his worn-down wife, and evidently rules his wayward children harshly.
The wayward child is at the back of the dim cement room, crouched in a corner near the hand basins.
Any wayward kicking will be returned with interest by the English back three.
This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
The Laois lads continued to dominate the exchanges but on occasions were guilty of some wayward passes.
The gatekeeper, cursing the wayward steering, was then surprised to be rebuked by the Archbishop from his position in the driving seat.
The finish is worn and there are spots from too-hot casseroles and scratches from wayward carving knives.
The giant orb plopped onto the path of an oncoming ferry and bobbed around like some wayward kind of multicoloured buoy.
The beast subsisted on a diet of swamp things, but was known to occasionally snack on wayward lumberjacks and other unfortunates.
She is the solace of the forlorn, the chastener of the prosperous, and the guide of the wayward.
Chris is one of the story's truly good-natured personalities even though he submits to the fleshly desires of the wayward physician Diane.
One in 10 is tempted to conceal her wayward tresses under a rug when it becomes frizzy, dry, dull or takes on a life of its own.
Most days he likes to walk around the golf course and its driving range collecting wayward balls.
One part of Scotland rather approves of a son of the manse turned prudent again after a spell as a wayward radical.
Her youngest child is a wayward Democrat, whereas the other two are God-fearing, law-abiding Republicans.
There then followed a long barren spell with Castlecomer frequently on the attack but their wayward shooting failed them at the final kick.
But this farmer is a kindly old man that loves his wayward piglet since his wife died in a thresher accident.
An off-white agricultural marquee, like some wayward beached iceberg, covered an all-weather work area.
The Dominican merengue, which has a distinct left-right, left-right step, is almost a march with wayward hips.
His hair was spiked, but true to its nature, a few wayward hairs escaped the gel, falling into his impossibly honey-brown eyes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I hate a wayward and sad disposition that glideth over the pleasures of his life, and fastens and feeds on miseries.
He lives in a log-cabin, occupying the centre of a small valley, through which the Tallulah river winds its wayward course.
Sharp unexpected touches evoke humanity in the fantoccini of his wayward art.
For it is not a poetic fiction when we are told that a wayward spirit, is subdued by nature's loveliness and lovingness.
Eva had been very wayward, full of admiration for Mr. mallam, and on the strict defensive against Jeremy's approaches.
My wayward feet soon took me, unintroduced, within the doors of that shop, the first of many visits.
Does it not prefigure the wayward and fantastic progress of a storm-tossed life?
Its pages are a maze of wayward asseveration decorated with ironic initial capitals and scare quotes.
At last thou comest back, my wayward son, But why didst shame me?
Who knows why the bassoon was harsh and wayward and imperious to-night?
At a given moment in his wayward progress, an icy draft struck him in the face.
A few wayward widgeon or even a pintail or two are a possibility provided the weather up north is cool enough to get birds headed south.
And both periodically break off into sub-cults anathematizing and waging internecine war against wayward brethren.
Why did his wayward feet carry him to the corner of Curzon Street?
But wayward children must, with all kindness, be flogged into obedience.
Louise, meanwhile, finds the perfect bolt-hole in Cornwall to keep her wayward teenage daughter out of trouble.
But he checked all such wayward fancies, and held himself rigidly down to his disquisition.
To be sure, one might have doubted, after the wayward and impatient existence she had led, whether she merited a haven of peace at last.
He was very wayward at times, but always faithful as a mastiff dog to me.
He took to Heathcliff strangely, believing all he said, and petting him up far above Cathy, who was too mischievous and wayward for a favourite.
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