wilful
IPA: wˈɪɫfʌɫ
adjective
- Intentional; deliberate.
- Stubborn and determined.
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Examples of "wilful" in Sentences
- 'Now, Miss Holman, that's what I call wilful,' said Holdsworth, as she gave them to him.
- 15.41 James Murdoch is asked is he is aware of the term "wilful blindness" as used in the Enron scandal.
- In the select committee today, Adrian Sanders asked the Murdochs if they were familiar with the term 'wilful blindness'.
- If Pryor actually believes what he seems to have said here, then I think he is engaged in wilful blindness about the nature of the criminal justice system in the United States.
- Here, the sentiment is, There are but two kingdoms, interests, parties -- with the proper workings of each: If I promote the one, I cannot belong to the other; but they that set themselves in wilful opposition to the kingdom of light openly proclaim to what other kingdom they belong.
- 'Finally, she adjures you to consider, that if you still persevere to consume your time in wilful negligence, to bury all thought in idle gaiety, and to act without either reflection or principle, the career of faults which begins but in unthinking folly, will terminate in shame, in guilt, and in ruin!
- "If that cough-drop-devouring creature had openly instructed those fourteen people — and what unfinished-looking faces they have — so characteristic, I always think, of the lower middle-class, rather like sheep, or calves 'head (boiled, I mean), to bring in wilful murder against the poor little man, he couldn't have made himself plainer."
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