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wilfully /ˈwɪlf(ə)li /(US willfully) adverb1With 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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