Dictionary entry
Wilful
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlfʊl/
Pronunciation
/ˈwɪlfʊl/
Myanmar Meaning
ကြံစည်ထားသော။ တမင်သက်သက်ဖြစ်သော။ willful murder ကြံစည်၍ ပြုသော လူသတ်မှု။ ခေါင်းမာသော။
Definition
wilful ( US also willful ) /'wÇlfl/ adj ( derog ) ၁။ တမင္ က်ဴးလြန္ေသာ။ wilful damage/ misconduct/ murder/ neglect. ၂။ တစ္ဇြတ္ထိုးလုပ္ေသာ။ ဇြတ္တရြတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a wilful child. wilfully /-fǝli/ adv : wilfully ignore instructions. wilfulness n [U]
Examples
- ‘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.’