wilful
adjective
wilfulness
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a word derived from
wilful.
Example Sentences
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In an age of weariness and wilfulness, mistrust in our politicians and political processes, of exhausting fractiousness and fake news, sport repeatedly provided sweet relief.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2019
Male nonsense, he told himself, but the pressure at his back was always a godly thing, as joyous as when he had first known its wilfulness in small aircraft over the Chicago Wastes.
From Nature ● Apr. 16, 2019
He addresses his work often, sometimes as “dear story”, and ascribes to it a wilfulness independent of its author.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2017
That level is attained in the loss of wilfulness, of desire, of personality.
From Time Magazine Archive
One prophecy of my Cassandra was impressed upon my recollection, by its containing the only severe expression that ever my incorrigible wilfulness could exert from the forbearing spirit of the Christian.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
