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were willfully
adverb
In a willful manner.
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We were willfully and intentionally misinformed by the White House.
"Just track this," Spitzer said, "and you'll be able to make the case that people were willfully blind".
The trustee, Irving H. Picard, contends that the Mets' owners, who invested with Madoff, were willfully blind to signs that Madoff was running a scam.
Picard is alleging that Wilpon and Katz were willfully blind to many alarms that Madoff might be involved in illegal or improper dealings.
Mr. Daschle's critique of the Bush administration was more than matched by Republican accusations that Senate Democrats were willfully obstructing the president's agenda.
Longstanding legal precedents were willfully twisted to justify a systematic regime of abuse employing the expertise of military psychologists and medical personnel.
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This is willfully myopic, of course.
But Republicans are willfully blind to this reality.
My grandmother, of course, is being willfully uncoöperative.
What Mr. Mars tells us himself is willfully inconclusive.
But that hard-won insight has now been willfully forgotten.
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