wilful

How To Use wilful In A Sentence

• Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered. Times, Sunday Times
• But wilfully taking the life of two innocents who trusted him isn't a courageous act. The Sun
• Wilful impenitence is the grossest self-murder; and that is a horrible thing, which we should abhor the thought of. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• This atrocity exposes the wilful self-delusion of western liberals who want to believe that humanity is essentially good
• It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
• As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
• But it is wilful — the very wind in the comings and goings of its influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, sweet moments; since we often stand even before the greatest works of Art without being able quite to lose ourselves! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
• Because wilful blindness to facts is rarely good policy. Times, Sunday Times
• He finds writing and directing arduous and resents financiers for what he sees as their wilful ignorance. Times, Sunday Times