Usually means: Stubbornly contrary and disobedient behavior.
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  1. frowardness: Merriam-Webster
  2. frowardness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frowardness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frowardness: Wordnik
  5. frowardness: Wiktionary
  6. frowardness: Dictionary.com
  7. frowardness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. frowardness: FreeDictionary.org
  9. frowardness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. frowardness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being froward.

Similar:
frowziness, frowstiness, forwardness, furtiveness, fretfulness, foolhardiness, forbearingness, rearwardness, refractoriness, towardness, more...

Opposite:
compliance, obedience, docility

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Similar:
frowziness, frowstiness, forwardness, furtiveness, fretfulness, foolhardiness, forbearingness, rearwardness, refractoriness, towardness, more...

Opposite:
compliance, obedience, docility



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