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 - of wilful , 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.
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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