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willfully
[ wil-fuh-lee ]
adverb
- deliberately or intentionally; on purpose:
Any seller who knowingly or willfully certifies false statements is subject to fine and imprisonment.
- in an unreasonably stubborn or headstrong way:
The student disrupted school activities and willfully defied the authority of teachers, administrators, and other school employees.
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Other Words From
- half-will·ful·ly half-wil·ful·ly adverb
- un·will·ful·ly un·wil·ful·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of willfully1
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Example Sentences
To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.
Last week, just before willfully separating themselves from each other, they told each other, “I love you.”
At best, his administration appeared exceptionally lax, and at worst, it willfully obstructed justice.
When she tried to explain to him that he himself could be a carrier, he “willfully ignored what [she] said.”
But anyone who really sees “racism” in the matter is being almost willfully blind to perfectly rational human nature.
But the being who willfully creates pain and evil cannot be benevolent.
Thus the law holds him guilty who willfully breaks a contract entered into in good faith by all the parties to it.
No taint of false sentiment, of sorrow willfully indulged, marred these memories.
She looked down into the black abyss from which she had willfully turned away her eyes, and saw that it was fathomless.
Both the lessons of history and the tendency of the times are willfully and incessantly ignored.
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