free-willed
Example Sentences
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“A lot of adult, strong-minded, free-willed women made decisions for their own lives.”
From New York Times • May 30, 2018
Party leaders could not have tangled with a more free-willed and insubordinate jousting partner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 28, 2015
The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
We are self-centered, free-willed; immune from any possibility of offending the universe.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
No—but the small team of creative specialists, each with an excellent understanding of the others' fields, and each working in a loose, free-willed cooperation with the rest, can.
From Security by Anderson, Poul William
