[
UK
/wˈɪlfəl/
]
[ US /ˈwɪɫfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɫfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
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done by design
willful disobedience
the insult was intentional
How To Use willful In A Sentence
- It seems to embrace a lot of our speculations here about the willful nature of ideas, and works well for things within our conscious realm, from babies to ballpoints.
- He may be charming but he is willful, thoroughly spoiled and a washout in politics.
- She was trying not to lose the urge that was uniquely her own, brattiness, joy, jokes, willfulness. Some Fun
- Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
- A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
- Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
- I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit.
- The questions at issue in the administrative hearing are whether an adult teacher in the course of his classroom behavior (a) willfully or neglectfully injured a child, (b) was insubordinate toward the administration, (c) violated the guidelnes for his behavior in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and/or (d) violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in his display of religious items and posters, including multiple instances of the Ten Commandments, in his classroom. Freshwater: Playing fast and loose with the truth - The Panda's Thumb
- The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter.
- She was headstrong and willful, used to charting her own course. WHOLE SECRET LOVE