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Значения термина wilful на английском

Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.

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(Doing or feeling something) in a deliberate or controlled way.

Wilful.

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Использование термина wilful на английском
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She was not wilful; she was not obstinate; she gave him affection.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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But the wilful strain in his nature set all prudence at defiance.
William Pitt and the Great War
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The second charge of wilful murder has been proved against the accused.
The Lost Despatch
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On the threshold stood the beautiful, high-spirited and wilful Duchess of Osterley.
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
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The general effect was of extraordinary lavish profusion-ofwilful, splendid, careless extravagance.
Clayhanger
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And of that time the wilful maiden did not wish to think.
Undine
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Watusk had the air of a wilful child called by his parent.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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She would not be guilty of a wilful untruth for the world.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
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The greatest thing about Rodney Smith has always been his wilful Englishness.
The Guardian
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That I must not be guilty of any acts of wilful meanness.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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Which is all very well for the wilful conundrums of Finnegans Wake.
The Irish Times
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Observe the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.
The value of a praying mother
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In this instance we have a strong, wilful, ambitious and masculine man.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
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Of such a quality is the love of princes-vain, capricious, and wilful.
Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
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I expect those Gurneys have a good influence over our wilful Dexie.
Miss Dexie / A Romance of the Provinces
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That exclusion was wilful and conscious … It was misogyny and sexism.
The Guardian
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