froward

uppiniskainen puhekieltä disobedient 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.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

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

'I owe much to Eomer,' said Theoden. 'Faithful heart may have froward tongue.'

Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.