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As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.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
Some basic safety rules were wilfully ignored.
She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect.
Sir knight, said the two brethren, we are forfoughten and much blood have we lost through our wilfulness, and therefore we would be loath to have ado with you. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
The wilful Welshman was quick to test his new manager, reacting to that substitution at The Valley with a stream of invective.
He is audacious, showing such wilful disrespect to the past that one wonders if it ever existed!
The only way to establish obedience in a child is to punish each and every wilful disobedience to a command.
Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
The scary thing is that these guys remain so largely, maybe even wilfully, unconscious of their power and privilege, and have so much influence - for now.
A wilful man will have his way.
Wilfully putting yourself into a situation where there is a high risk that you will not survive is different from hot-headedly throwing yourself into the path of danger.
As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience.
The present crisis is the result of years of wilful neglect by the council.
Men not troubled with anye desire of riches, but raither giuing them selues to wilfull pouertie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination. Our Responsibility to Youth
Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.
This has much to do with shopping and a little with wilful disregard of regular practice. Times, Sunday Times
He was a crucial figure in bringing new repertoire to a theatre which had almost wilfully avoided truly significant premieres in the previous four decades of its existence.
‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says.
The present crisis is the result of years of wilful neglect by the council.
It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
What the murrain is the matter now — Arc yoir not aQiam*d, wife, to dcficoy things wilfully thus — when thou knoweft how chargeable necefiaries arc Begone Jeremy, and mind the fliop. A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments, Performed on ...
For she bids us commit to the earth the corpses of all who die not "unbaptized," "excommunicate," or wilful suicides, and who are willing to lie in our consecrated ground; giving thanks to God that our dear brother has been delivered from the miseries of this sinful world, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Westminster Sermons with a Preface
His wilful jettisoning of anything approaching drama in the last act, though, scuppers the whole production.
Is my Lord Rakewell guilty or not guilty of the wilful murder of Tobias Flynn, esquire ? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
From all sides came laments about wilful absenteeism: as the factory-owners complained, the workers just dropped their tools and disappeared ‘whenever they felt like it’.
But common to all of them is a notable - almost wilful - ignorance about handling money day to day. Times, Sunday Times
An incautious word from you could set our wilful prince's feet on a path where none of us could safely follow him. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Socrates, the fearless Utopianism of Plato, the ambitious encyclopaedism of Aristotle, mark the dawn of a new courage and a new wilfulness in human affairs. The Pivot of Civilization
It's understood as a mark of educated cultivation, not wilful indulgence or evasion.
And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world. The Reformed Pastor
It just looked like greed and a wilful desire to drive the few remaining little shops out of business.
A slater from Skipton was tried at the town hall on a charge of wilful damage to a confectionery stall.
He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
Although grace superabounds where sin abounds, that is no reason why we should wilfully pile up the sin.
Worse again, he put together arrangements for his music which were obtuse and wilfully difficult.
Another provision relating to 'wilful default' or 'negligence' on a supplier's part is also being incorp-orated. HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines
For years, he was regarded as apolitical; almost wilfully apolitical.
Her wilful eccentricity and sonic adventurism mapped out new territory for hip hop at the turn of the century.
He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
Enough already with this wilful self-destruction by our supposedly virtuous childhood icons. The Sun
However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful.
Why are people so wilfully credulous? Times, Sunday Times
Don't wilfully cling to your reckless course.
Why then, after it had been segregated to emphasize its inferior status, did men wilfully cross the alps and seek out this remote spot for their clandestine purposes?
It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
She stood wilfully swaying a branch of the tendrilled arbor, and, he subtly felt, so dissatisfied with herself for her temporary disloyalty that she felt alien to them both: Marshby because she had wronged him by admitting another man to this intimate knowledge of him, and the other man for being her accomplice. Different Girls
The children, full of high spirits and wilfulness, were engaged in their morning romp of trying to evade Meekie, the colored "nannie," whose business it was to bathe them. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
All describe Scorpio as intense, wilful and determined, yet most of our Scorpios are classed as Librans by the siderealists!
Still, much as one enjoys the giddiness as reality and fiction seep into each other, there is still something wilfully costive about it.
A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
Her parents admitted wilful neglect likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury. The Sun
Because the parties had not knowingly and wilfully married in breach of the requirements of the Act as specified in section 49 the marriage was not void. Times, Sunday Times
My comments are being wilfully misinterpreted. Times, Sunday Times
A wilful man will have his way.
Day or at any other time, behaves rudely or indecently within the walls of any house of public worship; wilfully interrupts or disturbs any assembly for public worship within the place of such assembly or out of it "; for one" who on the Lord's Day, keeps open his shop, workhouse, warehouse or place of business on that day, except works of necessity or charity "; for an innholder or victualler who," on the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Why are people so wilfully credulous? Times, Sunday Times
And none of those reforms will end the wilful neglect of old people that seems to be commonplace in some hospitals. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the magistrates could only exercise their power of committal to prison on a finding of wilful refusal to pay or of culpable neglect.
It's a sad reflection that these acts of wilful and wanton vandalism appear to be increasing. Times, Sunday Times
It wilfully ignores the real differences between the needs of the disabled and the needs of the able-bodied.
He had wrongly used that word; it sounded malicious; and to call consenting the same in fact as choosing was wilfully unjust. The Egoist
If there are no originals, they will serve very well to commit the notary whose seal is on them, and yourself, upon a well-founded indictment for forgery, wilful calumniation, and a whole list of crimes sufficient to send you to the galleys for life. Saracinesca
A distorted habit of mind and the incredible difficulties of communication in the remote West during the first half of the nineteenth century had gradually caused James Ruan to sink his gentlehood in a wilful boorishness that left him a fierce pride of race and almost feudal powers, but the tastes and habits of his own labourers. Secret Bread
He had wilfully ignored notices posted on the train arguing that the by-laws were invalid.
Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government.
But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power.
It is not beyond possibility that Wenger's side will be eliminated at the Stadio Friuli next Wednesday, but the moroseness being expressed wilfully ignores the impact of the away goal that Arsenal should be capable of scoring in Italy. Amid the gloom, much to cheer in Arsenal's scrambled win over Udinese | Kevin McCarra
So while he comes out looking like the hapless victim of wilful misinterpretation, Carol is portrayed as mentally fragile and misguided, if not downright crazy.
It is wilful blindness that lies behind the often sluggish reaction of the medical establishment to new research. Times, Sunday Times
That they are so wilfully unstylish, so bereft of everything that makes a car interesting or fun. Times, Sunday Times
Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it.
This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
Some Australian states impose a mandatory minimum sentence for wilful murder.
Opinion -- she knew -- would say, that having wilfully chosen a position outside morality she had not half the case for brokenheartedness she would have had if Fort had been her husband: Opinion -- she knew -- would say she had no claim on him, and the sooner an illegal tie was broken, the better! Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
To rave about this performance is tantamount to wilful blindness. Times, Sunday Times
As You Like It is perhaps ideal for such treatment, since in that play the attempt to marry wilfulness and futurity is the outcome of a comic action of forced reconcilement.
The inversion of normal architectonic expectation is not just wilful, but has immense importance for the nature of space and experience.
Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
Male speaker Saboteurs are people who commit wilful acts of damage.
It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related.
Since 1961 the church has enforced it by ‘disfellowshipping’ or expelling un-repentant members who wilfully accept prohibited blood components.
The printer who sticks to a standard is usually supposed to be arbitrary, autocratic, wilful, conceited, and generally toplofty.
I had him charged with assault and he countercharged me with wilful destruction of property or some such thing. Soft Options: Day-Tripping to Danger
Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood.
Which is why we've spent years building up a communal wilful ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Both involve ancient recurring human drama, and after a whole it becomes simply wilful to feign contemptuous ignorance of something filling two pages of our daily papers, like those judges who would interject, pompously: "What is a Teletubbie/Xbox/iPod? Yes, it's fine to admit you don't watch TV | Euan Ferguson
Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it.
It's wilfully eclectic and rampantly idiosyncratic.
And the wilful ignorance and arrogance is potentially catastrophic. The Sun
It all went pear shaped around the second half of 1990 when the Big Bloke bought the network back and the wilful dumbing down began with a vengeance.
The king of kitsch, he wilfully focuses on the tackiest, most trivial productions of postmodern society. Times, Sunday Times
None of the allegations related to financial impropriety or wilful misconduct.
My comments are being wilfully misinterpreted. Times, Sunday Times
Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative. Tropic Days
I think this has been fragmented with wilful disregard. Times, Sunday Times
If my child or yours is wilfully untidy, lazy or disruptive, there is often a genuine case for saying that it is not really his fault.
And be in 4 days before, this maritime space is in " Sang Mei " below typhonic indulge in wilful persecution, gobbled up hundreds fisherman and nautical life.
‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says.
Now he rubs his beady eyes in sheer confusion at the wilfulness of his charges (ie, us), who simply refuse to listen to common sense anymore.
The almost wilful negligence of that era is a thing of the past. Times, Sunday Times
Thus wilful hardness is justly punished with judicial hardness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
No change shall be made wilfully once the method of inventory pricing is adopted.
His astonishing debut feature is one of the most wilfully obscure pieces of genre-busting cinema in a very long time.
Our wilful choices enter neither as redundant nor epiphenomenal effects, but rather as fundamental dynamical elements that have the causal efficacy that the objective data appear to assign to them. Book Review: Quantum Enigma
For years they give you not a jot of trouble, then, wham, they turn into wilful risk-takers who fall in love with little regard for the consequences.
But so is the wilful refusal to explain a single motive or frame. Times, Sunday Times
She is a smarty, answers back to me (especially when her father is not around) and is exceptionally wilful.
Rogue corporations that wilfully break the law will have their charters revoked, their assets sold and the money funnelled into superfunds for their victims.
The murder, and the arrest of two men suspected of it, brings to an abrupt end this wilful refusal to engage with reality. Times, Sunday Times
He added: ‘The wilful killing of innocent people can never be justified and is an act that merits unequivocal and unreserved condemnation.’
Wilful neglect of our manufacturing industry has caused this problem.
The Miami Herald columnist has produced a series of hysterical and wilfully absurd novels.
Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place.
If bent on wilful aims and lewd I fain forswear thee, ah! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
He has been criticised for being wilfully vague about those policy plans during the campaign.
The poems 'can seem willed or wilful, unartful or artificial'. The Times Literary Supplement
Benlowes -- a Cleveland with more poetry and less cleverness, or a very much weaker Crashaw -- uses a monorhymed triplet made up of a heroic, an octosyllable, and an Alexandrine which is as wilfully odd as the rest of him. A History of Elizabethan Literature
As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered,’ killed by wilful and deliberate action.
To rave about this performance is tantamount to wilful blindness. Times, Sunday Times
And for that wilful and unforgivable act, he deserves no sympathy at all. The Sun
You save more lives that way, even if the wilfully ignorant of the chattering classes get into a lather because of it.
There was no actual finding one way or another of fraud, wilful default or neglect.
But he admits to sharing one trait with his crumpled creation: he's wilfully perverse.
The secretiveness of the regime and the often seemingly wilful disinformation provided by its opponents makes matters worse.
And yet we can afford to trifle it away; yea, and to allow ourselves in this, and wilfully to cast off the greatest works of God.
Perhaps the most obvious is wilful and corrupt exploitation of debtors by dishonest employees of the credit reference bureau.
A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
No person shall wilfully damage injure or deface any of the Company's property.
There is often a wilful abnegation of logic, fairness and innate intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office.
And none of those reforms will end the wilful neglect of old people that seems to be commonplace in some hospitals. Times, Sunday Times
They talk with barely concealed fury at what they say is wilful neglect of the area. Times, Sunday Times
There is a passage in the Bible which says that judges are not to take gifts; and the reason assigned is, not that if a judge accepts a present he will, with his eyes open, wilfully condemn the innocent or acquit the guilty; but that "a gift _blindeth the eyes_," even "of the wise," so that he is no longer able to see clearly which is the guilty and which the guiltless party. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
And as yet another example of perhaps the only serious British contribution to 20th century architecture faces demolition, is there any other art form about which we could be so utterly, wilfully philistine?
The wilful killing of a person is murder.
‘Parents say the child is stubborn, wilful and try to put down his waywardness to other things,’ she says.
Wilful impediment of the sacred moves was not only ill-mannered, but the worst form of blasphemy.
He was greatly assisted by a wilful blindness on the part of the coalition. Times, Sunday Times
Isabella was fun-loving, cheerful, wilful, ill-educated and plump.
Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate.
It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related.
If restrained by sin, or disobedience, or ignorance, or wilfulness of any sort, then power _restrained_, held in check, not evident. Quiet Talks on Power
Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37 Bedlam
Robust ratings prevail, while the departure of Amanda "middle distance" Burton in 2004 has seen wilful abstruseness replaced by a slicker, Spooks-ier, less overtly guff approach. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
They swear are ill - mannered and aggressive, wilful as two - year - olds and utterly selfish.
Well, when we have what is quite clearly an alliance between the government and the press, and information is wilfully suppressed, then we are no better off than a country under a dictatorship.
The problem was not merely the barbarity and wilfulness of the native Irish, but that the initial grants to the original Anglo-Norman adventurers had been too generous.
That is, he that lives wilfully and allowedly in any one sin, brings the guilt of the violation of the whole law of God upon his soul, and that upon a twofold account. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
Observe, They did not hearken to Paul when he warned them of their danger, and yet if they will but acknowledge their folly, and repent of it, he will speak comfort and relief to them now that they are in danger, so compassionate is God to those that are in misery, though they bring themselves into it by their own incogitancy, nay, by their own wilfulness, and contempt of admonition. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Now, the idea of a divorce so easy and wilful as Mr. Shaw proposes arises naturally out of an exclusive consideration of what I may call the amorous sentimentalities of marriage. An Englishman Looks at the World
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished Only religious thugs love blasphemy laws | Nick Cohen
I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect.
I find it hard to understand that any seafarer could be so wilfully destructive and do such damage.
It is wilful blindness that lies behind the often sluggish reaction of the medical establishment to new research. Times, Sunday Times
This may also intimate that such as indulge themselves in gluttony or drunkenness, and by so doing make their own table the table of devils, or keep up fellowship with Satan by a course of known and wilful wickedness, cannot partake truly of the cup and table of the Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Wilful impenitency is the great damning sin of multitudes that enjoy the gospel, and which (more than any other) sinners will be upbraided with to eternity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
That is so wilfully deceitful as to constitute a lie.
She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album.
This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
Opinion -- she knew -- would say, that having wilfully chosen a position outside morality she had not half the case for brokenheartedness she would have had if Fort had been her husband: Saint's Progress
This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
The actions of the wilful man-child Gren sees the group splintered, and Gren's encounter with an intelligent but parasitic entity known as the morel leads him and his mate on a long, curious journey through the landscape of the dying world. Archive 2009-03-01
In other words ‘deliberate’ was qualified by ‘malicious’ to bring the meaning into line with ‘wilful’.
You don't accept the possibility that a government may one day wilfully misuse this information.
But when mad waves spring, braceletted with foam, towards us in the angriness of love crying a strange name, tossing as they come repeated invitations in the gay exuberance of unexplained desire, we can forget the sad splendour and play at wilfulness until the gods require renewed inevitable hopeless calm and the foam dies and we again subside into our catalepsy, dreaming foam, while the dry shore awaits another tide. Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
We will not create the opportunity for the mischief-makers wilfully to label whomsoever they wish as secret agents of the apartheid system. ANC Today
-- That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as Olshausen], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Till wilful loss of game atwixt two queens surprise me: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate.
They eat huge quantities of sweet and fried foods, in wilful disregard of their health.
Within the context of this film, which wilfully denies many of the conventional pleasures of cinema spectatorship, such moments are genuinely transcendent.
The author highlights the revisionists' almost wilful ignoring of long-established archaeological and textual data.
Various non-docile members of the community, who Campbell attacks, spend a great amount of time analysing his words and actions for anomalies and wilful elisions.
The attack turned a wilfully controversial work into something of an icon. Times, Sunday Times
These performances are a meeting of dazzling musical minds, offering an untraditional approach that never sounds wilful, attention-seeking or eccentric. Times, Sunday Times
We will not create the opportunity for the mischief - makers wilfully to label whomsoever they wish as secret agents of the apartheid system. ANC Today
If it transpires that there was indeed some fraud or misconduct or wilful misleading of people or abuse of office then, yes. Times, Sunday Times
What was most memorable about Harlem was the waitress, who flirted with concentrated, wilful intensity, a sort of Mata Hari with a tray.
As if to counter the accusations of snootiness, not every selection is wilfully obscure.
He lived a very wilful life, and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood.
Why are people so wilfully credulous? Times, Sunday Times
Much of that ignorance is wilful, when facts are ignored and minds closed to reality.
Much more of this wilful disregard for issues of presentation might see him surrender public sympathy. Times, Sunday Times

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