wilfully
IPA: wˈɪɫfʌɫi
adverb
- (obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will.
- Deliberately, on purpose.
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Examples of "wilfully" in Sentences
- "I know you like him the best," said her cousin wilfully.
- All you have to do is to repent and trust to Him, and to go and sin no more, intentionally, wilfully that is to say.
- 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Acts such as wilfully distorting your chart figures and preventing people from linking to specific blog entries are highly unbecoming.
- "(Rau could) at best be described as wilfully blind to what was going on, at worst highly dishonest, deceitful and calculated conduct," he said.
- You, I well know, would shudder at the idea of wilfully depriving yourself of reason, and of sinking yourself to the situation of a beast or of a maniac.
- A sub-heading inserted in the article, claiming that McNally had "wilfully" avoided uncovering hit squads in KwaZulu-Natal, did not reflect the contents of the story, the M&G said in a statement.
- There is the odd zinger - "Superhero just lying down", for instance, whose title wilfully undercuts the image of a hero apparently in full flight - but, in the main, they are more like bad greeting-card puns than clever witticisms.
- So that he here describes the worst of sinners, -- those that sin wilfully, and against the convictions of their own consciences, whereby they add rebellion to their sin, -- those that sin deliberately, and with a great deal of plot and contrivance, using
- It is not difficult to understand that the painter of a ‘Proserpine’ and a ‘Ghirlandata’ would occasionally feel the luxury of a mood intellectually lazy, and would be minded to give voice to it — as in this instance — in terms wilfully extreme; keeping his mental eye none the less steadily directed to a
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