Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
(Doing or feeling something) in a deliberate or controlled way.
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Examples for "headstrong "
Examples for "headstrong "
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 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.
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.
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 - of wilful , splendid, careless extravagance.
6 And of that time the wilful maiden did not wish to think.
7 Watusk had the air of a wilful child called by his parent.
8 She would not be guilty of a wilful untruth for the world.
9 The greatest thing about Rodney Smith has always been his wilful Englishness.
10 That I must not be guilty of any acts of wilful meanness.
11 Which is all very well for the wilful conundrums of Finnegans Wake.
12 Observe the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.
13 In this instance we have a strong, wilful , ambitious and masculine man.
14 Of such a quality is the love of princes-vain, capricious, and wilful .
15 I expect those Gurneys have a good influence over our wilful Dexie.
16 That exclusion was wilful and conscious … It was misogyny and sexism.
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