willful
adjective
deliberate, voluntary, or intentional.
willfulness
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a word derived from
willful.
Example Sentences
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There’s a willfulness to the story that isn’t always easy to overlook, though the fluid staging gives the events a natural flow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Petrenko, small and smiling, his gestures precise, is the antithesis of willfulness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
She is as much of a royal as she is a would-be general, skilled at riding her dragons and standing up to her dangerous uncle Daemon, who appreciates her willfulness.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2022
And there it is: the sins of commission and omission — both willfulness and the failure to do what is right — played out before our very eyes, at home and abroad.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
Her spirit, her passion, her youth, her courage, her willfulness — I felt all of these things the moment I first saw her.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
