Wayward

The father had trouble communicating with his wayward son.

The wayward son has returned.

Fancies are like shadows . . . you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut.

Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut, who on one occasion while her father was sleeping gave a secret banquet to her lover, in which the pair, excited with wine, committed folly after folly, until at last it occurred to the frivolous girl to open the sluice-gate.

She has a wayward streak that worries her parents.

He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the University, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.

Fancies are like shadows . . . you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.

The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar. The prizes, which are the wayward son of the more righteous Nobels, are supposed to reward research that makes people laugh, then think.

Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.