willfully
pronunciation
How to pronounce willfully in British English:
UK ['wɪlfəlɪ]
How to pronounce willfully in American English:
US ['wɪlfəlɪ]
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- Adverb:
- in a willful manner
Word Origin
- willfully (adv.)
- also wilfully, late Old English wilfullice "of one's own free will, voluntarily;" see willful + -ly (2). Mid-14c. as "deliberately, knowingly." Bad sense of "on purpose" is attested from late 14c.
Example
- 1. Oracle is claiming that by including java in the android mobile-phone operating system , google is willfully violating sun 's patents on java .
- 2. Wu chaoming , a researcher with the people 's bank of china , was sentenced to six years in prison for willfully revealing secret information to 15 people in the securities industry , li zhongcheng , a state prosecutor said in beijing today .
- 3. The cause , as snow saw it , was the chauvinism of intellectuals on both sides ( but especially those in the humanities ) , who remained willfully ignorant of the other .
- 4. But this willfully ignores the fact that the entire industry benefited not only from the bailout , but from the assistance extended to aig and homeowners , and from the many unprecedented emergency actions taken by the federal reserve , the fdic , and others to prevent a financial collapse .
- 5. But I am convinced that only a few ever enjoy the fulfillment of god 's perfect plan for their lives because most people don 't know to listen to god 's leading and follow him . Instead they choose ( either willfully or ignorantly ) to go their own way .