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willfully

adverb as in intentionally

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All Californians need to stand up to people who not only want to remain willfully ignorant about the bad parts of our history but also want to stop others from learning about them.

“I killed Robert F. Kennedy willfully, premeditatedly, and with 20 years of malice aforethought,” he told the court, later explaining it was a reference to the 1948 birth of Israel.

Audiences are clamoring for great theatrical comedies, but laughter shouldn’t come at the cost of progressiveness, especially in a moment when so much of the media is willfully regressing toward conservatism.

From Salon

Apparently, millions would rather suffer mightily — or even die, as many willfully unvaccinated people did — than admit they were wrong.

From Salon

In the hands of great filmmakers, a documentary can render something that your sensibilities might willfully ignore — even condemn.

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