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After a certain point, a willful, proud ignorance masquerading as superior wisdom becomes a social menace and a stigma of poor citizenship.

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The executor’s actions are bad manners, at best, or a willful abandoning of her fiduciary duty, at worst.

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Prosecutors are also alleging a special allegation of willful harm or injury resulting in death.

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This new Angie is as impetuous, brash, willful and secretive as the original.

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I was fascinated by a woman who lived such a life of the mind that she had a sort of willful misunderstanding of the machinations of her body.

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