How to Use willful in a Sentence

willful

adjective

• He has shown a willful disregard for other people's feelings.
• Most of the non-willful fines were in the hundreds of dollars.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
• This season focuses on the willful delusion of the wealthy.
  — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• Her mother, 70, was booked on three counts of torture and three counts of willful cruelty to a child.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
• Mayorkas, 64, faced two charges from the House: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• Adella Tom was booked on three counts each of torture and willful cruelty to a child.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2022
• And so there's a willful destructiveness as much as there is a very strong creative urge in her.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Mayorkas, 64, now faces two charges from the House: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• If the violation can be proved to be knowing or willful the amount is tripled.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• One was unruly, willful and disobedient, and the other was calm and easy to be around.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• So this willful denial of what movies actually are has set in.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 July 2023
• If a jury finds that Equifax's error was willful, the company could be on the hook for up to $1,000 more in damages for each defendant.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Hasn’t willful ignorance gotten us into these doomy problems in the first place?
  — Stephanie Hayes, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
• Some of the most esteemed long-distance trails in recent years have been built by willful enthusiasts.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• As such, our findings hint at ways to combat willful ignorance.
  — Linh Vu, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
• The motion said the willful dissemination of false claims was spread by people throughout Fox News.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Snyder was charged with two counts of willful neglect of duty by a public official.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2022
• But the group says that her use of certain phrases and words demonstrated a pattern of willful anti-Black animus.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Her mother, Adella Tom, 70, was only charged with torture and willful cruelty to a child.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2022
• Snyder is charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022
• Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2022
• To be gullible is to be anachronistically innocent in the digital age, out of step, or guilty of a kind of willful ignorance.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Arabella's grandmother Adella Tom, 70, was booked for three counts of torture and three counts of willful and cruelty to a child.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2022
• Mays is facing a court martial, and was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
• Arabella's grandmother Adella Tom, 70, was booked on three counts of torture and three counts of willful and cruelty to a child.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• Those who determine to try again after tragedy strikes, often do so with a willful power and energy.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• The willful captains of Deadliest Catch have sailed back to Discovery Channel for season 18.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• Violation of this statute requires a willful intent to take or hide or destroy the documents.
  — Amber Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Are we meant to be implicated in our own indifference, our willful avoidance of the barbarism in our own backyards?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• And yet there was a growing sense that that confidence, that supreme self-belief, had become something more stubborn than secure, more willful than strong-willed.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024