Sentence examples for wilfully and from inspiring English sources

"Accusing someone of wilfully and deliberately endangering a child in their care is a difficult area to get into".

He has behaved wilfully and erratically, and shows no hint of getting a grip on the country's problems.

The powerful know they are pulling strings in an abstract sense, but are still wilfully (and blissfully) ignorant of specifics.

So I was there at the very nascent stages, when the government – wilfully and in deepest secrecy – subverted the constitution.

The ending was wilfully and unsatisfactorily unresolved but the pace and grip of this theatrical thriller made for a memorable evening.

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

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, railed against the mayor's "careless elitism"."Was ever a man so unfairly and so wilfully traduced and misunderstood?" laments Mr Johnson; and for once in his scandal-adorned career he has a point.

If we are getting down to basics, it is wilfully neglectful and ultimately pointless – and hypocritical – to lay responsibility for the trail of bloodshed at the feet of drug users.

We know how loudly money talks but, again and again, we wilfully forget, and every reminder seems to carry scorn for our idealised faith, as well as greed.

The concept for this production is simple: a red-nosed troupe attempt to perform Shakespeare's tragedy in their flat-footed way and, being clowns, wilfully sabotage and misinterpret the play.

To dismiss those who flee such horrors as mere "economic migrants", as if all they want is some gilded consumer lifestyle of TVs and PlayStations, is wilfully blind and manifestly cruel.