froward

Example Sentences

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Two of them — 6-2 froward Autumn Newby from Baylor and 5-6 guard Alexis Morris from Texas A&M — are starters.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

“Before we were stepping froward, now we’re stepping back,” a supporter named Katherine King told me.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2016

"What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!"

From Time Magazine Archive

But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees."

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's a kitten," said Ethan, feeling froward and very bold.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth