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[ UK /wˈɪlfə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɫfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  2. 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
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