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
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
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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
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Quiet, Lord, my froward heart: Make me teachable and mild, Upright, simple, free from art,— Make me as a weanèd child: From distrust and envy free, Pleased with all that pleaseth Thee.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various