self-willed
- a word derived from self-will.
Example Sentences
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Maybe that matters less than the fact that Ms. Fox sees her whole life as playing out under the terms of a self-willed destiny.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Only Monte, a self-willed celibate, initially thwarts her plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2019
A subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman, Murakami is a master of both suspense and sociology, his language a deceptively simple screen with a mystery hidden behind it.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 10, 2019
Both homes are now sites of pilgrimage, arbiters of the still resonant mythology of the American dream of self-willed success.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2017
Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
