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Example sentences for "willfully"

Lexicographically close words:
willer; willers; willest; willeth; willful; willfulness; willies; willin; willing; willinge
  1. Both the lessons of history and the tendency of the times are willfully and incessantly ignored.

  2. If, in the opinion of the Umpire, any one of these rules is willfully violated.

  3. For the Captain or Coacher willfully failing to remain within the legal bounds of his position, except upon an appeal by the Captain from the Umpire's decision upon a misinterpretation of the rules.

  4. The first is where the expulsion of the fetus is willfully produced; the other where it is purely an accident.

  5. A young man who willfully dissipates his energy as fast as it is formed, by means of masturbation or prostitution, may not have emissions.

  6. A person who willfully sets fire to a building, or is guilty of cruelty to animals, malicious mischief, or sells liquor is punished.

  7. No use to talk to men as a class, about anything but politics.

  8. To be ourselves and to leave others free is to "be good.

  9. Thousands of women are simply starving for Love and men are either willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish.

  10. It is all nonsense to talk about the men being "willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish.

  11. Whether, if she did not in their opinion expose it with a view to kill it, she willfully concealed the birth?

  12. Whether, if she either knowingly exposed and killed her child, or willfully concealed the birth, there were any circumstances in the case which call for mitigation of the penalties provided by the penal code?

  13. Is it not said that if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins?

  14. By sinning willfully he means, as he explains it, a "treading under foot the Son of God," and a total and final apostatizing from Christ.

  15. I am a gentleman, and a man, and therefore vulnerable to such a temptation as you willfully threw at me.

  16. Men can break over the law, and have short-sightedly and willfully done so; for men are also agents who guide their actions by an end to be achieved.

  17. Human nature may, through infirmity or perversity, willfully break over the beneficent trend of the laws of nature; but to the Physiocrat's sense of the matter the laws are none the less immutable and irrefragable on that account.

  18. Important communes there have been destroyed by fires lighted willfully by the Germans in the absence of any kind of military necessity, and without the population's having given any provocation for such atrocities by their attitude.

  19. You could commit it also by willfully killing or wounding persons consecrated to God, such as nuns, priests, bishops, etc.

  20. It is a grievous offense willfully to conceal a mortal sin in confession, because we thereby tell a lie to the Holy Ghost, and make our confession worthless.

  21. What must he do who has willfully concealed a mortal sin in confession?

  22. Remember, forgetting is not the same as concealing; but if you should willfully neglect to examine your conscience or make any effort to know your sins before going to confession, then forgetting would be equivalent to concealing.

  23. Have I been willfully distracted at Mass or have I distracted others?

  24. Have I wasted my time willfully and neglected to do my duty at school or elsewhere?

  25. Is it a grievous offense willfully to conceal a mortal sin in confession?

  26. Therefore sacrilege can be committed by willfully abusing or treating with great irreverence any sacred person, sacred place, or sacred thing.

  27. Think, then, what a terrible crime it is to willfully allow anyone to die without Baptism, or to deprive a little child of life before it can be baptized!

  28. He who has willfully concealed a mortal sin in confession must not only confess it, but must also repeat all the sins he has committed since his last worthy confession.

  29. If, then, we willfully conceal a sin that we are bound to confess, God is a witness to our sacrilegious lie.

  30. And what meant his actions in thus willfully leaving us?

  31. Now, I do not suppose you would willfully harm a stranger; but since I have met you, I have a great desire to know why you fired that shot at Nat.

  32. Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.

  33. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

  34. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

  35. Or willfully disobeys the lawful order of a non-commissioned officer while in the execution of his office.

  36. Or willfully disobeys any lawful command of his superior officer.

  37. Any person subject to military law who willfully or through neglect suffers to be lost, damaged, or wrongfully disposed of, any military property belonging to United States of America--shall make good the loss and.

  38. We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us.

  39. The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

  40. Chapter 33 Vronsky for the first time experienced a feeling of anger against Anna, almost a hatred for her willfully refusing to understand her own position.

  41. Nothing cheers me so much at this moment, as the recollection that I have never willfully offended anyone; but have always used my utmost endeavors to confer benefits upon all.

  42. Infidels are willfully blind, and can see nothing.

  43. If an Israelite had willfully determined to stay at home, or to go to some place of his own choosing, he would neither have met Jehovah there nor his brethren, and hence he would have eaten alone.

  44. Christina fanned the fire until it tinged his cheek by willfully hesitating before giving him a gracious answer.

  45. Or if he willfully obstruct any fieldsman:--“Obstructing the field.

  46. The fieldsman may stop the ball with any part of his person, but if he willfully stop it otherwise the ball shall be “dead,” and five runs added to the score.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "willfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    consciously; deliberately; doggedly; freely; independently; intentionally; knowingly; pointedly; purposely; voluntarily; wittingly