Sentence examples for a wilful from inspiring English sources

This was a wilful distortion of the truth.

I'll be charitable and accept this wasn't a wilful misrepresentation.

There's a wilful subversion of scientific-sounding language too.

Paris's 200,000 dog owners are a wilful lot.

Not a wilful one, she was a destroyer with a purpose.

Similarly, teams that lack a wilful visionary often falter, as happened after Steve Jobs left Apple.

It's tricky spotting the difference between a a wilful misreading of history and honest ignorance.

He calls the work "a wilful romance with an object of scorn".

"A wilful, defiant child" was her mother's view, but then she had sewn the dress.

But it is not, as you might fear, a wilful act of destruction.

Part of that is a wilful refusal to embrace a positive English identity.