wayward
difficult (person)
TRANSLATION
wayward = eigensinnig, unberechenbar --- GOOGLE INDEX wayward: approximately 4,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
How does a concerned parent understand their WAYWARD teenage child?
(BBC News Magazine)
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Carry on my WAYWARD son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
- from the song Carry On Wayward Son by the rock group Kansas
(BBC News Magazine)
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Carry on my WAYWARD son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
- from the song Carry On Wayward Son by the rock group Kansas
Did you
know?
wayward
adjective
- often changing, selfish and difficult to control (as in behaviour)
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
- erratic, unpredictable
(Collins English Dictionary)
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The Wayward Butler
One evening in 1921, Austen Chamberlain (the future British foreign secretary) and his wife attended a dinner party at the home of a legendary London hostess. The food and wine were excellent and the evening perfect, with one exception: the butler had been drinking.
Chamberlain, the most esteemed of the many guests, delivered an animated monologue on Ireland and had begun to discuss the momentous decision of the Unionists in 1886 when the hostess' attention was drawn to the wayward butler. Rather than make a scene in front of her guests, she secretly scribbled a message and handed it to him. "You are drunk," it read. "Leave the room at once."
The butler elegantly laid the message on a silver tray, tottered around to the other side of the table and with a deep bow, dutifully presented the note to Austen Chamberlain.
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SYNONYMS
capricious, erratic, fickle, headstrong, incorrigible, obstinate, ornery, stubborn, unpredictable, whimsical
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Most teenagers eventually grow out of the wayward phase and start acting like human beings."
adjective
- often changing, selfish and difficult to control (as in behaviour)
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
- erratic, unpredictable
(Collins English Dictionary)
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The Wayward Butler
One evening in 1921, Austen Chamberlain (the future British foreign secretary) and his wife attended a dinner party at the home of a legendary London hostess. The food and wine were excellent and the evening perfect, with one exception: the butler had been drinking.
Chamberlain, the most esteemed of the many guests, delivered an animated monologue on Ireland and had begun to discuss the momentous decision of the Unionists in 1886 when the hostess' attention was drawn to the wayward butler. Rather than make a scene in front of her guests, she secretly scribbled a message and handed it to him. "You are drunk," it read. "Leave the room at once."
The butler elegantly laid the message on a silver tray, tottered around to the other side of the table and with a deep bow, dutifully presented the note to Austen Chamberlain.
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SYNONYMS
capricious, erratic, fickle, headstrong, incorrigible, obstinate, ornery, stubborn, unpredictable, whimsical
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Most teenagers eventually grow out of the wayward phase and start acting like human beings."
