Sentence examples for wilfully bad from inspiring English sources

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This can't quite be sustained: she's (justifiably) breathless for much of the second half, before petering out with various wilfully bad impersonations – a different character from the force of nature who's dominated the show.

Here, ugliness itself is the defining aesthetic, though it is not the determinedly crafted ugliness of, say, the Chapman Brothers or Sarah Lucas, more the everyday ugliness of hard drug use, wilfully bad tattoos and young people who should know better behaving badly.

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Perceiving children as wilfully, intentionally bad is associated with abusive parenting and adverse outcomes.

"But instead, Nicola Sturgeon and others cited the good years to claim we would all be £500 better off, and wilfully ignored the bad years because it didn't fit with their plan.

During the bad-tempered hour-long debate, Mr Farage accused Europhile Mr Clegg of "wilfully lying" over Brussels' powers over the UK, while Mr Clegg claimed the UKIP leader was peddling "dangerous fantasies".

Wilfully immemorious?

Or maybe wilfully waylaid.

They are being wilfully deceived.

It's wilfully ridiculous.

Not wilfully either.

It is wilfully meaningless.

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