Example sentences for: willfully

How can you use “willfully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Holmes explained that some of his Alabama colleagues opposed his measure because they willfully refused to accept that the federal government had the power to override state law--an ideology of states' rights that goes way beyond Newt Gingrich to John Calhoun.

  • Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.

  • He found no factual errors in Magaziner's affidavit, and no evidence that he had intended to willfully mislead the court.

  • The Harvard Law professor's book on race gets plaudits for its equal-opportunity attacks on both the left (for tendentiously seeing racism everywhere) and the right (for willfully seeing racism nowhere).

  • U.S. agricultural recruiters in Mexico could willfully misrepresent working conditions to permanent legal residents across the border, knowing the alien would be barred from legal assistance on her federally-protected MSWPA claim.


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