willfully
Example Sentences
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As more flights return, “the potential for airliners being targeted either willfully or by error will increase dramatically,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
“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
Well, as New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada recently observed, that question is willfully stupid.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026
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
I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
