froward

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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

The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carry your self discreetly, it concerns me, The Duke's come in, none of your froward passions, Nor no distasts to any: Prethee Theodor, By my life, boy, 'twill ruine me.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Beaumont, Francis