Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
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Examples for "wilful"
Examples for "wilful"
1She was not wilful; she was not obstinate; she gave him affection.
2But the wilful strain in his nature set all prudence at defiance.
3The second charge of wilful murder has been proved against the accused.
4On the threshold stood the beautiful, high-spirited and wilful Duchess of Osterley.
5The general effect was of extraordinary lavish profusion-ofwilful, splendid, careless extravagance.
1Yes; at this headstrong council; and I have seen him since; alone.
2A headstrong approach will almost definitely rub others up the wrong way!
3These details exhibit in the boy the headstrong independence of the man.
4The headstrong young woman persisted in exhibiting the utmost contempt for her.
5A month later the headstrong galloper won by 15 lengths at Punchestown.
1What possible response could he give to a willful denial of reason?
2He loved Inez for her willful and methodical rejection of common sense.
3It did not seem possible so willful a misunderstanding could be maintained.
4He said he also deserved punitive damages because the infringement was willful.
5Other parents think that their child's inattention is more willful than chemical.
1There is nothing froward or formidable in the aspect of Dublin Castle.
2Perhaps, there are other hearts equally froward and wayward with my own.
3A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
4They must not be froward and peevish, nor defraud others of their right.
5How, then, can the godly be differentiated under such circumstances from the froward?
1I never saw so perverse and self-willed a child in my life.
2These people are also terribly head-strong and self-willed in all they do.
3The self-willed, headstrong man will likely have the toughest time of any.
4Why must the heart be so imperious and self-willed in these matters?
5I was beginning to find out that Carrie could be self-willed sometimes.
6As I grew up, my self-willed disposition became more and more developed.
7Passionate and self-willed, he was shaken by a storm of murderous anger.
8He was more than ever peevish and self-willed, with this only difference.
9I learnt that my cousin had grown up ignorant, self-willed, and clownish.
10But she is reckless, self-willed, defiant of public opinion and exceedingly impulsive.
11He was a stubborn self-willed man, and he went his own way.
12Naturally, or accidentally, she was very passionate, and not a little self-willed.
13I am sure that Frederick Lee is no self-willed, exacting, domestic tyrant.
14You are an ungrateful, rebellious, self-willed daughter, and you'll never be otherwise.
15The woman repeated the cry in the voice of an angry, self-willed child.
16Not stupid, my dear; if I must say the word, it is self-willed.