willfully
Example Sentences
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“Any honest evaluation of that evidence would validate strongly keeping the endangerment finding in place, and the arguments for removing it are ideologically driven, willfully ignoring the evidence that’s out there,” Field said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
The penalties range from up to one year in jail or a civil fine of up to $50,000 all the way to as much as five years in prison if someone willfully violates the law.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2025
Sara Grillo, a New York City-based marketing consultant and chartered financial analyst, warns consumers to steer clear of any adviser “who unquestionably willfully deceived someone.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
By Sony’s telling, Cox willfully refused to cut these alleged music thieves off from its service because it didn’t want to lose their business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
The path unwound; perhaps it was taking them somewhere, willfully, since neither of them could step off it and go knowingly into the annihilation of whiteness that was the grass on either side.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
