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Example sentences for: wayward

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The high-decibel concern about wayward youth is full of defensive bluster and muddle-headed ambivalence, and it is strikingly lacking in realism.
He also promises to crack the whip on wayward legislators by publishing the "referenda results, broken down by state and congressional district," in the Hill , a congressional newspaper.
This is comical, and he knows it, but it is also characteristic of the love and wonder he feels for the myriad adaptations of life, especially its most wayward forms.
Sometimes she becomes visible to the wayward husband who is out late, drinking, and when he approaches her, she turns into an ugly horse-faced hag, scaring him into swearing abstinence forever.
It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.