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self-willed

Speech parts

1. self-willed - Adjective

2. self-willed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred - the human law in himself, his own individual will. Bruce Lee

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. Colette

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