The phrase "as wilful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is done intentionally or with a strong will, often in a negative context.
Example: "His actions were as wilful as they were reckless, showing a blatant disregard for the rules."
Alternatives: "as intentional" or "as deliberate".
And he adeptly evokes the personalities of the ducal band, a "rowdy crew of iron-willed individualists" who were almost as wilful as their leader.
On hearing that her grandchild had kept its legs in a tight ball during the scan, my Mum teased: "He/she is obviously as wilful as you!" My older brother thought it was hilarious and instantly began referring to the baby as Leslie, Vivien and other unisex names.
Blairites regard some of the criticism as wilful misrepresentation by the left.
The building was set alight and Police Scotland said it was being treated as "wilful fire-raising".
But what some see as wilful or naive complication is, for Marechera, an honest accounting of his reality.
I was aware that a lot of people saw my stance as wilful, capricious, greedy and selfish.
In laughing in the face of such bourgeois ideas as Average Life Expectancy, they exit the world as the wilful outsiders all rock stars should be.
They see it as a wilful surrender of any ambition to engage with voters who abandoned the party in 2010 and 2015.
Written in three days, shot in three weeks and widely loathed on release, the film now reveals what might best be described as a wilful sloppiness.
Here are the key findings: The report described Murdoch, the 81-year-old News Corp chairman, as exhibiting "wilful blindness" to behaviour at the now-closed News of the World.
Madame De, at once astringent and romantic, stars the entrancing Danielle Darrieux (her third Ophüls film) as a wilful French countess whose earrings pass from hand to hand when she falls in love with an Italian diplomat (Vittorio De Sica).
