42 examples of willfully in sentences

She would reveal their tender relationship, and surely then any one, knowing the young man's nature, would scout the assertion of his willfully shooting Wesley.

Thousands of women are simply starving for Love and men are either willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish.

It is all nonsense to talk about the men being "willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish."

If he willfully leaves the circle, a link in the chain is broken which can only be mended when he repents his folly and pleasantly returns to his place.

I only know that it was not in Ned Worth's character willfully to kill an old man.

Should it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the States are parties, will have been willfully violated by one portion of them in a provision essential to the domestic security and happiness of the remainder.

Still less can it be supposed that any of them willfully violated the law or the Constitution.

If Clarence had wooed and won her he had not willfully deceived her.

That which blinded Herbart to these limitations was that tendency toward unity, which, as a metaphysician and moral philosopher, he had all too willfully suppressed, and which now took revenge for this infringement of its rights by misleading the psychologist to an exaggeration which had important consequences.

DUNCE, wittily or willfully derived from Duns, surnamed "Scotus.

Convinced But having persuaded myself willfully with auto-suggestion, and having been on a one-track crusade, I remained convinced that Congress would win the day.

The other comes from a vice of style, a willfully enigmatic and unnatural way of expressing thought.

My lips have never willfully uttered a false word; still they have lied to you.

Gracefully and willfully she queened it over the whole household.

And so we entered La Ferte. Doors and windows no longer existedthe former had been dashed to splinters by the butt ends of guns, while the latter were shattered to powder and from their apertures swung bed clothing, personal adornment and household belongings in shreds and tattersall willfully soiled by mud and filth.

Then what remained was thrown into corners and willfully soiled and smeared in the most disgusting and nauseating manner.

When, therefore, we hear young and inexperienced Masters speak of making improvements (as they arrogantly call them) upon the old lectures or ceremonies, we may be sure that such Masters either know nothing of the duties they owe to the craft, or are willfully forgetful of the solemn obligation which they have contracted.

They honestly desire the prosperity of the institution, and they would not willfully do one act which would impede that prosperity.

It declares, "that if any individual, from selfish motives, from distrust of his acceptance, or other causes originating in himself, knowingly and willfully travel into another jurisdiction, and there receive the masonic degrees, he shall be considered and held as a clandestine made Mason.

Sin means "Willfully breaking religious or moral law."

" The boy, knowing that a severe punishment was not in such a case to be anticipated, and, in fact, apparently pleased with the idea of exonerating himself from the blame of willfully injuring the property of another, rose and said, "I suppose it was I, sir, who did it, and it was my own hat.

" "But, Doctor," said Rev. Carmicle, "you cannot willfully deprive the negro of a single right as a citizen without sending demoralization through your own ranks.

" "Let us," replied Rev. Carmicle, "pass it along the lines, that to be willfully ignorant is to be shamefully criminal.

It would be to commit a crime which I would not willfully commit to gain any earthly reward, and which would justly subject me to the ridicule and scorn of all virtuous men.

And in the event of the said two commissioners differing, or both or either of them refusing, declining, or willfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements shall be made by them or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated.

42 examples of  willfully  in sentences