Sentence examples for wilfully wrong from inspiring English sources

But since Clarkson is wilfully wrong about both the obligations of equality legislation and the BBC management, which is unlikely to balance this particular "blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy" with a "black Muslim lesbian", he is probably safe from meeting his nemesis any time soon.

Doug Altman, perhaps the leading expert on statistics in medical journals, sums it up thus: 'What should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either wilfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions?

The university management under vice-chancellor Malcolm Gillies seems to have wilfully ignored warnings of things going wrong.

Obviously, you might argue that Tory feminists are wrong, or complacent, or wilfully blind; but it doesn't follow that they are, de facto, not feminists.

Even 21 years after Stock, Aitken and Waterman last worked together, they remain perhaps pop's most reviled producers, their wilfully tinny sound symbolic of all that went wrong with music in the 80s.

Guardiola can do no wrong, whereas José Mourinho appears to be wilfully making every mistake in the book, blaming his players, criticising individuals and making promises to Wayne Rooney that he subsequently finds difficult to keep.

The Guardian's story was wrong but was not fabricated, which suggests the journalist wilfully invented or concocted the story with deceitful intent.

Don't get me wrong, this is pretty mild stuff compared with the wilfully explicit "educational" writing about coitus – and its associated relationships – that our children are now encouraged to read.

We still need voices like his to articulate what is wrong, right now, with an official and media language that wilfully ignores the malign effects of class and poverty.

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).

Wilfully immemorious?