Thesaurus / wayward
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Finau won that event Monday on the first playoff hole when Cameron Smith was undone by a wayward drive.
WITH THE BMW CHAMPIONSHIP (AND FEDEX CUP PLAYOFFS), THE PGA TOUR IS FINALLY BACK IN MARYLANDGENE WANGAUGUST 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTFor a start, they only detected errors and didn’t actually test out the process for correcting wayward qubits.
GOOGLE GETS ONE STEP CLOSER TO ERROR-CORRECTED QUANTUM COMPUTINGEDD GENTJULY 19, 2021SINGULARITY HUB In the future, the astronomers hope to understand how these wayward worlds acquired their odd orbits.
MOST PLANETS ON TILTED ORBITS PASS OVER THE POLES OF THEIR SUNSKEN CROSWELLJUNE 14, 2021SCIENCE NEWSI do not wish to be put through any wayward maneuvering, and I am certainly not interested in a romantic relationship with you.
MISS MANNERS: TEACHER-TURNED-COLLEAGUE IS CREEPY, UNPROFESSIONALJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTStill, Suggs would be a dream addition for a wayward franchise that hasn’t won a playoff series since 2004 and has struggled to develop a young core in recent years.
THE BEST NBA FITS FOR GONZAGA’S JALEN SUGGSBEN GOLLIVERAPRIL 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOne idea is that Phobos and Deimos are wayward asteroids that were captured by Mars.
THESE IMAGES EXPOSE THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDECOREY S. POWELLAUGUST 26, 2020NAUTILUSBut agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONMariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA large stone set in a secure place surely is a better boundary than a wayward stream whose course is changed by every freshet.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESObserve the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMWORDS RELATED TO WAYWARD
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- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
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- pertinacious
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- wayward
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- fallen between cracks
- forfeit
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- hidden
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- irrevocable
- kiss goodbye
- lacking
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- wandering
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- without
- arch
- artful
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- dickens
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- holy terror
- hurtful
- ill
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- idiosyncratic
- iffy
- incalculable
- inconsistent
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- planetary
- rambling
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- wayward
- weird
- whimsical
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- hard-line
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- insoluble
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- locked
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- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
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- recalcitrant
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- tough
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- undisciplined
- ungovernable
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- unpliable
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- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
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- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.