willfully

Adverb

Meaning

in a willful manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

wilfully freely deliberately badly intentionally deliberate voluntarily purposely carelessly resolutely determinedly impulsively foolishly doggedly wantonly
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Antonyms

greatly automatically accidentally mechanically involuntarily amply
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Phrases with the word

willfully ignore

Examples

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. Edna St. Vincent Millay

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely. Seth Godin

What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing? Norman Spinrad

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. James I of England

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

willful neglect willful participant in a crime willful participator in a crime willfully ignore willfulness willhendersonite