Sentence examples for be wilfully from inspiring English sources

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be wilfully

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Willingly, of one's own free will.

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Corporate life might be less spicy, but fewer careers would be wilfully destroyed.

Malcolm makes some overt attempts to meet her own prescriptions, but the results tend to be wilfully anxious.

It would be wilfully ramshackle and inclusive - both on the level of form, and on the level of content: an essayistic novel, or a novelistic essay.

Still, you'd have to be wilfully stubborn to overlook the Storm's continued ability to stay at or near the top year in, year out.

He is a writer who is not afraid to make the the reader roar with laughter – or to be wilfully difficult.

And I could just as easily write off Ionesco's questioning of "normal" behaviour as a precursor to RD Laingian hippy psycho-babble - but that would be wilfully reductive.

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They are being wilfully deceived.

It's wilfully ridiculous.

It is wilfully meaningless.

It's wilfully regressive".

Bish Bosch is wilfully obscure.

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