Sentence examples for were wilful from inspiring English sources

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were wilful

adjective

Intentional; deliberate

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"They were wilful, prolonged and sometimes elaborate.

7. Mark Lathwell, Cricket (1990-2001) onhers on this list were wilful and extrovert.

Along the way there would be enjoyable detours through musical or cultural lore, gossip about performances Hopkins had witnessed, and the occasional sarcastic aside at what he thought were wilful obscurities or longueurs in the music.

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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.

This is wilful murder.

To argue otherwise is wilful.

Some are wilful misunderstanding.

Alice is wilful and determined, like me.

"To me this is wilful negligence.

The obstruction must be wilful, without lawful excuse and unreasonable.

"No," she says sharply, that was wilful misinterpretation.

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