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单词 wilfully
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wilfully

/ˈwɪlf(ə)li /
(US willfully)
adverb
1With the intention of causing harm; deliberately: she denies four charges of wilfully neglecting a patient he admitted wilfully ill-treating animals...
  • At the end of Henry IV, in a re-enactment of Hamlet's murder of Polonius, Henry wilfully thrusts his sword into Belcredi.
  • As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience.
  • The Act also covers persons who knowingly or wilfully (within the timeframe specified for their retention) destroy, deface or conceal from the Revenue any documents.
2With a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences: he had wilfully ignored the evidence the business seems willfully headed toward extinction...
  • The Miami Herald columnist has produced a series of hysterical and wilfully absurd novels.
  • She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album.
  • Its lyrics are repetitious, its sound wilfully dated, its messages straightforward.
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