"wilfully failed to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means deliberately or intentionally did not do something. Example: The company wilfully failed to follow safety regulations, resulting in multiple workplace accidents.
This is a common tactic amongst those who, often wilfully, fail to understand how science works.
It is an offence to be present in a protected place without permission, and to wilfully fail to stop after being challenged by a police officer or unlawfully refuse to submit to a search.
The critics seem wilfully to fail to see that this situation is the direct result of policies of fiscal discipline and capital investment, which have generated far more disposable income than would have been true if old left strategies had been adopted.
But then political writers had begun to notice what film critics either failed to detect or just wilfully ignored.
This week Lionel failed to read The Woman Racket, by Steve Moxon: "A wilfully controversial book claiming that men are the downtrodden sex, so pretentious and badly written that even the happy prospect of finding it offensive couldn't pull me through".
Here is Neil Woodford, the type of long-term investor one assumes the government would like to attract to help fund big infrastructure projects: "I have to conclude that the government has either failed to understand the implications of this policy change, or wilfully ignored the interests of capital providers in this vital industry.
One of my colleagues has also found quite an old case (Johnson v Phillips, 1975) where someone who failed to comply with a police officer's direction to reverse the wrong way down a one-way street was convicted of wilfully obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty (now an offence under section 89 of the Police Act 1996).
Girls failed to materialize.
