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were wilfully
adverb
Willingly, of one's own free will.
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Instead, the problems were wilfully ignored.
We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.
Even by late-1970s post-punk standards, Gang of Four were wilfully perverse.
The proposals were wilfully misconstrued as "a cap on rents", when they are nothing of the sort.
But it's just so part of the landscape right now that it felt like we were wilfully ignoring something that couldn't be ignored.
It wants to know whether American banks, which helped to place the bonds with investors, were wilfully ignorant of the firm's problems.
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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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