Example sentences for: willfully

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

  • However, it was common practice for epidemiologists to conceal cases of infectious disease and willfully underreport epidemic morbidity, because outbreaks meant that the epidemiologists were not performing their duties of preventing and controlling infectious diseases.

  • Over the years, advertisers have tried all kinds of tactics to attract customers, and more recently those tactics have seemed to cover the full spectrum of the possible, including the utterly oblique (Infiniti's first campaign), the willfully tacky (Mentos), the memorable-for-memorability's-sake (Outpost.com's flying gerbils and ravenous wolves), and the self-loathing (Sega's Japanese ads for Dreamcast, which I wrote about here last week).

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

  • e) Yes, they were willfully delusional.

  • After emphasizing just how gross this film version of the popular Comedy Central series is ("the potty-mouth on this R-rated cartoon is pretty mind-boggling"--Gary Dauphin, the Village Voice ), critics go on to praise it: "Hilarious, willfully filthy" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ); David Ansen ( Newsweek ) calls it "tasteless, irreverent, silly and smart."


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