How to Use "wilful" with Example Sentences

1. Mary has the disturbed expression of a mother worried over her wilful little boy .

2. The present crisis is the result of years of wilful neglect by the council .

3. Wilful disobedience , negligence , murder , waste .

4. A distant personality who often took long research trips to china 's remote regions , he was a poor shepherd for a clever , wilful girl .

5. Despite fears that his health may have blunted his ambition , however , those moments seem to have sharpened a business method that often seems wilful , individualistic and counterintuitive .