Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

* 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :

Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, / Is, that she is intollerable curst, / And shrow'd, and froward , so beyond all measure, / That were my state farre worser then it is, / I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.

* 1826 , George Crabb

A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.

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