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Toward. Gower.

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  • PERVERSENESS
    The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.
  • UNTOWARDLY
    Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
  • FROWARD
    Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn.
  • INTRACTABLE
    Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable;
  • WAYWARD
    Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
  • PERVERSED
    Turned aside.
  • FRACTIOUS
    Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Syn. -- Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. -- Frac"tious*ly, v. -- Frac"tious*ness, n.
  • STUBBORN
    Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn
  • PERVERSEDLY
    Perversely.
  • PERVERSELY
    In a perverse manner.
  • UNTOWARD
    Toward. Gower.
  • PERVERSE
    p.p. of pervertereto turn around, to overturn: cf. F. pervers. See 1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. The only righteous in a word perverse. Milton. 2. Obstinate in the wrong;
  • AWAYWARD
    Turned away; away. Chaucer.
  • ENFROWARD
    To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. Sir E. Sandys.

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