Sentence examples for be wilful from inspiring English sources
adjective
Intentional; deliberate
The obstruction must be wilful, without lawful excuse and unreasonable.
Instead of which, we have had what has often seemed to be wilful neglect.
Mr Paxman said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia", but that "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend".
She had wit, charm and generosity, and while she could be wilful and self-dramatising, she was also natural and straightforward - never in my eyes the "femme fatale".
When it so often feels that women are an afterthought in policymaking, to suggest children should come first might appear to be wilful obstructionism (or just daft).
The Newsnight host said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia", but that "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend".
The telling finding was that the parents were more likely to assume the boy's ADHD expressed his intentions, was wilful, advocating harsh responses: as in the other studies, attributing in-built wilfulness increases authoritarianism.
To argue otherwise is wilful.
Some are wilful misunderstanding.
"They were wilful, prolonged and sometimes elaborate.
