self-will
noun
stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
self-willed
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a word derived from
self-will.
Example Sentences
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But for all the barriers he’s broken and all the miles he’s logged in his career as a Navy test pilot, Maverick occupies a state of self-willed professional stasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
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
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
Alec Newman's wickedly self-willed Edmund is also ideally offset by the transformative virtue of Gwilym Lee's Edgar.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010
No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
