Sentence example with the word 'willful'

willful

advised, conscious, dogmatic, independent, mulish, perverse, restive, sulky, uncompelled, unprompted, willing

Definition adj. done by design

Last update: June 29, 2015


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What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness.   [adjective]

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What really astounds me, tho, is the apparently willful ignorance and short-sightedness of the various experiments devised by their vivisectors.   [adjective]

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In France not all the difficulties one meets with _en route_ are willful obstructors of one's progress.   [adjective]

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Every time that a willful child does what he wants to do, and suffers sharply for it, he learns a lesson that nothing but this experience can teach him.   [adjective]

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If I a willful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength.   [adjective]

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Some children are easily persuaded and gentle, others willful, still others sullen unresponsive.   [adjective]

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I say willful, because the instances I have mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others.   [adjective]

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"Willful haste makes woeful fight."   [Please select]

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His blindness had been willful, the child of his own desires.   [Please select]

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Never did I come across a more willful bit of flesh and blood.   [Please select]

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He was a willful little creature, and the regular employment was taming him, and Mrs.   [Please select]

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