froward

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”).

On this wise, then, was the froward wife corrected and the young man, loving, was beloved." — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio
"I will hide myself from them in view of their latter sins, for they are a froward generation without faith. — Pascal's Pensées, Blaise Pascal
Now, if the evil of banishment proceeds not from ourselves, but from the froward disposition of the people, I have just now declared how contemptible it is. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero

headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful

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