How To Use Willfully In A Sentence
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Here, willfully ignoring the geography of their location, generations of mandarins and their memsahibs gossiped, took tea and went to the races, as if they were somewhere in Surrey rather than on the borders of Tibet.
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Because they are vicious, willfully stupid (not ignorant, mind you) lying hypocrites as devoid of integrity as they are vapidly lacking in anything like intelligence.
Think Progress » Man ‘disenchanted with the federal government’ indicted for planting pipe bombs in mailboxes.
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People who know they are positive will not willfully transmit the virus.
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Your comeback is the typical move-the-goalposts tirade with fancy bold letters very much preferred by the willfully ignorant.
Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
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she had willfully deceived me
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A tendency to absolutize statements out of context, while willfully ignoring the comprehensive meaning derived from a broad knowledge of the text.
Kabir Helminski: What Is 'True Piety' According to the Qur'an?
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Oh, and for any "redistributive" justice favoring individual who disagrees with me, I fully believe in the "Castle Doctirine," meaning that if you willfully and rationally decide to rob my place of residence, then I believe it is my right to defend my place of residence with deadly force.
BlueOregon
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For the willfully, viciously stupid carrion feeders that comprise the backbone of Reichwing religionists, such a notion is as alien as Jesus caring for the poor.
Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
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First of all, the title Muhammadan is given to Muslims by some organizations to willfully distort the name Muslim given by Allah (Allah is the preferred name of God), the Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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But unlike Woody or Tommy - schlemiels with whom we can identify- Vladimir's ‘problems’ are too hysterical, too willfully and ridiculously constructed, for us to empathize.
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This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult.
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Even if the associated critics, vested-interests, anti-science people, oil barons, conspiracy theorists, and assorted willfully ignorant types choose to ignore this invitation, at least they won't be able to say they weren't consulted, orthat scientists andclimate policy professionals don't want to hear from them.
Science
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What is funny is all the contortions by Obama, the democrats and their useful idiots in sidestepping the issue of why the federal government has willfully not enforced its own laws.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Will Kagan Say about AZ Immigration Law
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Historically, the region has always been known as the borderlands, a sort of no man's land of some 65 million people stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, people whose identities have been confused and sometimes willfully distorted by the ebb and flow of competing empires.
Trouble Next Door
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Willfully to misinterpret a text is akin to attributing an action to the author that he did not commit.
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The categorical imperative supports active euthanasia since no one would willfully universalize a rule which condemns people to unbearable pain before death.
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The Plot deftly navigate through jazz, punk, and metal with pinpoint precision, willfully mangling their songs while still retaining a sense of structure.
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He will never set you at defiance or willfully injure you.
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When this man eventually demits office (willfully or otherwise) he should become a vociferous advocate for disease prevention, e.g. AIDS, STDs, etc.
Jenny Sanford moving out of governor's mansion
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But so powerful did they prove themselves as wealth generators that investors in them soon abandoned any pretence of willfully winding them down.
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Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
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The Fifth Circuit's approach is almost willfully blind to the reality established by both custom and history.
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WILLIAM THOMPS.N, ALABAMA S.PREME COURT: All of the members of this court, after serious consideration of the evidence and testimony presented at this trial, find by clear and convincing evidence that Roy S. Moore, while in his role of chief justice of the S.preme Court of Alabama, did willfully and publicly defy a federal court order directed to him.
CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2003
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The most disturbing aspect of this article isn't anything that appears in the article itself, but rather the collection bigoted, jingoistic, and willfully ignorant remarks that followed.
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Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
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To punish those who knowingly and willfully attempt to violate civil tax laws.
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Now, I'm not trying to be nettlesome or willfully dense.
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That Hamann suffers so much neglect, one must concede, is largely the result of the willfully hermetic impenetrability of his most important works.
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Perhaps Bella, without a spouse around to mention that she needs a vision test and reading glasses, took my examples one hundred and eighty degrees out of context not because she was willfully twisting my words to back up her point (that would be unethical, after all), but because she just couldn't see all that well (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, being a fellow presbyopic singleton.)
Lori Gottlieb: On Settling for Mr. Good Enough
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You have, I fear, willfully misread my article.
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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
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India Bridge is a decent woman, hopefully naïve, willfully unliberated, cursed with a brain she is afraid to use and time that she cannot manage to fill.
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In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.
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Some are willfully blind, some are blinded by their immersion in backwaters of popular culture dominated by the likes of Coulter or O'Reilly or Limbaugh.
Balkinization
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Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Individuals who willfully refused to comply with Puritan precepts were excluded altogether from the promise of grace.
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Willfully creating meaningless phrases, with spurious precision, to arbitrarily limit science to the crudest empiricism, measurements is a way to limit the domain of science.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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Estate agents who willfully underquote houses going to auction will apparently get big fines with a new investigation.
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Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
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You realize, of course, that any decent statistician can identify and label errors in statistical manipulations that are inserted willfully to present an analysis with a gamed conclusion.
The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
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Teachers can not be dismissed for insubordination unless they willfully and deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules.
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Our guardians of purity have magnified the pain of this family and willfully and vindictively punished them for the ‘crime’ of a biological imperfection.
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You willfully ignore my central thesis: that there has been a change in the motivations underpinning US foreign policy.
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I would never willfully visit dishonor upon our house, but I will not abandon them.
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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
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One exception: experimental literary works that strive to undermine narrative and story conventions – i.e. that willfully lack beginnings, middles and ends, characters, so forth – are usually quite easily classified as fiction (unless they seem to be turning into poems.)
Philosophy and Literature
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The peak, of course, is ‘Like a Hurricane’, perhaps one of the finest examples of Neil's willfully untechnical guit-hartic playing style, a chord progression that induces string-popping frenzy in his live shows to this day.
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With each of your volunteer help of 4 hours this July collecting signatures from your neighbors and finical donations, the citizens of Portland will hold Sam Adams accountable for willfully lying to us to get elected, orchestration of an elaborate cover-up and abusing the power we granted him.
Adams recall war chest: $2,778 (Jack Bog's Blog)
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This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
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Since when is punishing someone for willfully and maliciously damaging another person's property "wrongheaded"?
An Alternative Approach to the Graffiti “Problem” « PubliCola
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This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
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To flesh out further this last rather willfully provocative statement, we must return to the reaction elicited by the proletariat's principal surrogates in Saint Symphorien - the two foreground lictors.
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Hell, if a consensual blowjob is grounds for impeachment, then willfully violating U.S. law should be as well.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
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The state interest in prosecuting those who willfully evade their taxes is of great importance, and we should be careful to avoid rendering nugatory the state's ability to investigate and obtain evidence from these offences.
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Don't get me wrong and don't willfully misinterpret me.
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He was subsequently charged for willfully committing an indecent act in a public place, which carried a sentence of four months in jail.
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I would never willfully visit dishonor upon our house, but I will not abandon them.
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Their playing is willfully steeped in the discomforts of danger and exploration, and their inventions all the more stunning for their studied adversity.
