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Meanings of willful in English

Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.

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Intentional.

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Examples for "intentional"
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Earlier this year it restated financial results after discovering intentional accounting errors.
Reuters
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And the very quiver in his voice seemed in a manner intentional.
The Seven Who Were Hanged
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The fable in Greece originated in an intentional travesty of human affairs.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
4
Untoward events involving radioactive material, either accidental or intentional, are potentially devastating.
Pubmed
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The two-thousand-plus intentional nuclear bomb detonations in the name of weapons testing.
Pines
Usage of willful in English
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What possible response could he give to a willful denial of reason?
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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He loved Inez for her willful and methodical rejection of common sense.
Flesh and blood
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It did not seem possible so willful a misunderstanding could be maintained.
Bring the Jubilee
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He said he also deserved punitive damages because the infringement was willful.
Reuters
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Other parents think that their child's inattention is more willful than chemical.
It's nobody's fault: new hope and help for difficult children an...
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She had no profound respect for that gentleman; but men are willful.
Trumps
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Yet I accuse none of willful wrong, but only of unconscious error.
Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession / A Novel
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Promiscuous and willful, she was also a victim of the falling disease.
House of Bathory
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The trip was beginning to feel like an act of willful disappearance.
The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
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When she at last spoke, it was in a reckless, willful tone.
The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel
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She pleaded no contest to a charge of willful neglect of duty.
Ebony
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Even Bernice wasn't willful enough to misplace all that trust, was she?
Hula Done It?
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As if he were saying: I know your defection was not willful.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
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How is it that my daughter becomes more willful by the day?
Daughters of the Nile
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But habitual, cold-blooded, and willful ill-temper-thetrade-markof unmitigated selfishness-isindisputably ill-bred.
Etiquette
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Though he appears to me to be willful and stubborn. She shrugged.
Rage of the Dragon
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