wilful
/ˈwɪlfʊl/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwɪlfʊl/
wilful
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- Short i vowel
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wil - ful -> wilful
Myanmar meaning
ကြံစည်ထားသော။ တမင်သက်သက်ဖြစ်သော။ willful murder ကြံစည်၍ ပြုသော လူသတ်မှု။ ခေါင်းမာသော။
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wilful (US also willful ) /'wÇlfl/ adj (derog )
၁။ တမင် ကျူးလွန်သော။ wilful damage/ misconduct/ murder/ neglect.
၂။ တစ်ဇွတ်ထိုးလုပ်သော။ ဇွတ်တရွတ်နိုင်သော။ a wilful child. wilfully /-fǝli/ adv : wilfully ignore instructions. wilfulness n [U]
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- ‘In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.’
- ‘This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.’
- ‘Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.’
- ‘Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery.’
- ‘Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect?’
- ‘She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional.’
- ‘It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.’
- ‘As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered, ’ killed by wilful and deliberate action.’
- ‘Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place.’
- ‘They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office.’
- ‘One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle.’
- ‘We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries.’
- ‘He also criticised the failure of the Government to give full effect to the Children's Act 2001 which deals with willful neglect by parents.’
- ‘She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect.’
- ‘Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters.’
- ‘There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.’
- ‘But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood.’
- ‘This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children.’
- ‘Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.’
- ‘They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution.’
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