Sentence examples for done wilfully from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand – how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

The offence is not "restricting" the highway, or even "obstructing" it, but doing so wilfully and without lawful authority and excuse.

6 Far and away the poshest thing you can do is wilfully mispronounce your surname, as if the basic rules of vowels, consonants and syllables simply didn't apply to you, and then oblige strangers to follow your lead.

It is what Sister Edgar does, first wilfully, in devoting herself to God, and then miraculously, by ascending into cyberspace, "the lunar milk of the data stream", a collectivity of brain or soul (what Teilhard de Chardin called the "noosphere"), which seems to forecast both the death of the printed book and the eternal life of some new universal mind, or in Whitman's terms, "soul".

What cheating does is wilfully ignore the personhood of the betrayed party, denying their right to make an informed choice about who they are with.

In this study, there were both fathers and mothers who regarded breastfeeding as not important and their responses seemed to be real; this implies that the respondents did not wilfully offer socially desirable answers.

That doesn't mean wilfully ignoring the gravity of the situation we face.

It alleges that Mr. Scopes "did unlawfully and wilfully" teach certain theories denying the Biblical story of the divine creation of man, which was "against the peace and dignity of the State".

I cannot agree that a man may be punished for wilfully doing what he has a legal right to do".

So badly – and wilfully – does Peterson misrepresent his intellectual adversaries that he's able to tweet, only partly sarcastically, that "science is a social construct, remember?

And Kevin Rudd's continuing presence in the parliamentary Labor party will see him do what he has always done, and that is willingly, wilfully, recklessly, destabilise Labor leaders," Emerson told the ABC's 7.30.