willful

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.
• 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
• In discussing this topic on the bus from Nicosia to Kyrenia en route to the conference dinner, Nick Jaworski pointed out, that if transfer were the explanation, why is it that his Turkish students willfully produce errors like * I went Antalya, when the analogous verb + prepositional phrase exists in Turkish (even if the preposition is attached as a suffix)? May « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT