Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
1 I never saw so perverse and self - willed a child in my life.
2 These people are also terribly head-strong and self - willed in all they do.
3 The self - willed , headstrong man will likely have the toughest time of any.
4 Why must the heart be so imperious and self - willed in these matters?
5 I was beginning to find out that Carrie could be self - willed sometimes.
6 As I grew up, my self - willed disposition became more and more developed.
7 Passionate and self - willed , he was shaken by a storm of murderous anger.
8 He was more than ever peevish and self - willed , with this only difference.
9 I learnt that my cousin had grown up ignorant, self - willed , and clownish.
10 But she is reckless, self - willed , defiant of public opinion and exceedingly impulsive.
11 He was a stubborn self - willed man, and he went his own way.
12 Naturally, or accidentally, she was very passionate, and not a little self - willed .
13 I am sure that Frederick Lee is no self - willed , exacting, domestic tyrant.
14 You are an ungrateful, rebellious, self - willed daughter, and you'll never be otherwise.
15 The woman repeated the cry in the voice of an angry, self - willed child.
16 Not stupid, my dear; if I must say the word, it is self - willed .
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