Dictionary entry

Willful

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlfʊl/

Pronunciation

/ˈwɪlfʊl/

Myanmar Meaning

wilful

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

  1. ‘In Brian's life
  2. there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.’
  3. ‘This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful
  4. calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.’
  5. ‘Secondly
  6. 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.’
  7. ‘Even when others act where you have not done so
  8. you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery.’
  9. ‘Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect?’
  10. ‘She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional.’
  11. ‘It means wilful act or omission
  12. negligent act or omission
  13. or malicious act or omission.’
  14. ‘As the article pointed out
  15. a pet was ‘murdered
  16. ’ killed by wilful and deliberate action.’
  17. ‘Well
  18. I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity
  19. but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness
  20. flying pickets would not seem out of place.’
  21. ‘They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months
  22. long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office.’
  23. ‘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
  24. cooking them to death as they struggle.’
  25. ‘We control universal processes
  26. as a willful act of mankind
  27. through these discoveries.’
  28. ‘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.’
  29. ‘She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect.’
  30. ‘Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters.’
  31. ‘There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.’
  32. ‘But he is given immunity for the deliberate
  33. wilful telling of a falsehood.’
  34. ‘This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children.’
  35. ‘Well
  36. clearly
  37. to be murder in the first degree in California
  38. it has to be willful
  39. deliberate or premeditated.’
  40. ‘They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution.’