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单词 waywardness
释义
waywardway‧ward /ˈweɪwəd $ -wərd/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINwayward
Origin:
1300-1400 awayward ‘turned away’ (13-16 centuries), from away + -ward
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • wayward youth
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Aunt Sally left her personal estate of several hundred thousand dollars to a home for wayward Dalmatians.
  • Leonie felt a momentary pang of compassion for her wayward granddaughter.
  • The chemistry had been between them from the start, waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it.
  • The dashboard sports a gash from wayward bicycle gears.
  • They were both very smart and correct, but Grandad was a little more wayward.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=hanging in an untidy way)· Emily pushed back a stray curl.
behaving badly, in a way that is difficult to control:  a wayward teenagerwaywardness noun [uncountable]
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