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willful
[ wil-fuhl ]
adjective
- deliberate, voluntary, or intentional:
The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
Synonyms: volitional;
- unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed.
Synonyms: adamant, obdurate, inflexible, pigheaded, refractory, contrary, intransigent
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Other Words From
- will·ful·ly adverb
- will·ful·ness noun
- half-will·ful adjective
- half-will·ful·ness noun
- un·will·ful adjective
- un·will·ful·ness noun
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Example Sentences
The movement was a willful, angry child, though, exploding away from “art” and from the canvas in particular.
Cribs, unlike seatbelts, are built for the purpose of willful prevention.
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.
At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.
Is the study of society undertaken with a willful ignorance of moral philosophy, theology, civics, and Econ 101.
A sweet and blessed sleep enveloped her like the cloak of a kind mother wrapping the willful child who has much suffered and wept.
She was high-spirited as a girl, a little willful and impulsive, but with the best heart in the world.
Marian undoubtedly wheedled her father a good deal in the manner of handsome and willful daughters.
He was selfish, willful, and obstinate at two-and-thirty as he had been at ten years of age.
He was a willful man, with a good deal of granite in his make-up.
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