Meanings of wayward boy in English

Observe the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.

As the father of that wayward boy, it is my duty to control him.

To Emily, the kind feelings entertained for the wayward boy proved sources of frequent unhappiness.

You have evidently been a wayward boy at home.

He was, however, a curious, wayward boy.

At any rate, "Dodd" was a wayward boy from the first, a typical preacher's son.

The minister stood in the moonlight looking sadly after the wayward boy whom he had loved for years.

Month after month they waited, in deep sorrow, for tidings from their wayward boy, but no tidings came.

At length, after turning the last page, she closed the book; and then came the thought of her wayward boy.

You were always a proud, wayward boy, William, but never did I think you would do as you have done.

She was a woman of caprices and eccentricities, and not at all fitted to superintend the education of her wayward boy.

No, my pretty dear, not till the "wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy" comes this road-oh ,no ,nottill next time!

His mother put together sadly enough the few belongings of what she regarded as her one wayward boy; then she held up a little Testament:

Lincoln's tall, rugged figure met the compact General with the easy generous attitude of a father ready to have it out with a wayward boy.

For months the stalemate persisted while his mother, eager for word from her wayward boy, continued to ply him with letters and remittances of money.

He thought it a strange thing to see in the chapel of a religious boarding home for wayward boys.