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Meanings of willful in English
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
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Examples for "wilful"
Examples for "wilful"
1
She was not wilful; she was not obstinate; she gave him affection.
2
But the wilful strain in his nature set all prudence at defiance.
3
The second charge of wilful murder has been proved against the accused.
4
On the threshold stood the beautiful, high-spirited and wilful Duchess of Osterley.
5
The general effect was of extraordinary lavish profusion-ofwilful, splendid, careless extravagance.
1
Yes; at this headstrong council; and I have seen him since; alone.
2
A headstrong approach will almost definitely rub others up the wrong way!
3
These details exhibit in the boy the headstrong independence of the man.
4
The headstrong young woman persisted in exhibiting the utmost contempt for her.
5
A month later the headstrong galloper won by 15 lengths at Punchestown.
1
There is nothing froward or formidable in the aspect of Dublin Castle.
2
Perhaps, there are other hearts equally froward and wayward with my own.
3
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
4
They must not be froward and peevish, nor defraud others of their right.
5
How, then, can the godly be differentiated under such circumstances from the froward?
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.
Usage of willful in English
1
What possible response could he give to a willful denial of reason?
2
He loved Inez for her willful and methodical rejection of common sense.
3
It did not seem possible so willful a misunderstanding could be maintained.
4
He said he also deserved punitive damages because the infringement was willful.
5
Other parents think that their child's inattention is more willful than chemical.
6
She had no profound respect for that gentleman; but men are willful.
7
Yet I accuse none of willful wrong, but only of unconscious error.
8
Promiscuous and willful, she was also a victim of the falling disease.
9
The trip was beginning to feel like an act of willful disappearance.
10
When she at last spoke, it was in a reckless, willful tone.
11
She pleaded no contest to a charge of willful neglect of duty.
12
Even Bernice wasn't willful enough to misplace all that trust, was she?
13
As if he were saying: I know your defection was not willful.
14
How is it that my daughter becomes more willful by the day?
15
But habitual, cold-blooded, and willful ill-temper-thetrade-markof unmitigated selfishness-isindisputably ill-bred.
16
Though he appears to me to be willful and stubborn. She shrugged.
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