self-willed

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ADJECTIVE
  1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

How To Use self-willed In A Sentence

  • For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, self-willed, obstinate, and too hot to handle.
  • O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Henry's break from Rome is convincingly anatomised, and Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn both emerge as strong, self-willed players.
  • He very seldom felt as self-willed in dreams as he felt in this one; indeed, he seldom dreamed at all; or at least remembered his dreams. COLDHEART CANYON
  • These were no self-willed Dead spirits that had infiltrated through the Perimeter. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Her tale takes off like a cheetah, starting with the horrendous moment of simultaneously losing six of her Black Panther brothers, as in siblings, to her impregnating rape a day later, her brief career as a bordello girl, to her self-willed destiny as the ultimate queen of drug dealers in 1970s Chicago. â¨â¨ Binky Philips: Nick Tosches Saves The Last Dance For Satan
  • A child with an unbroken will becomes self-willed.
  • Nicole Kidman shoulders the strong, self-willed, yet vulnerable protective mother's role with grace.
  • If he is now self-centered, selfish, and self-willed, do not think that he is going to change himself or that you are going to be able to change him once you get him past the ceremony.
  • [26] Stimulus, or correction, -- one hardly knows which to ask for first, as more salutary for our own slumbersome, yet so self-willed, northern temperaments. Plato and Platonism
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