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  • n  the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

  • This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness.
  • It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can .
  • That level is attained in the loss of wilfulness, of desire, of personality.
Quotes

  • Bernie Farber in Toronto Star
    What the justices have done is they have held the issue of wilfulness to an extremely high standard and the real question is going to become whether or not it should be at this high standard,said CEO Bernie Farber. "That is something that...
  • Billy Bragg in Independent
    Billy Bragg, the singer-songwriter and author of The Progressive Patriot, said yesterday: "I think what he said is inflammatory. He just doesn't realise he's playing with fire. I can't help feeling there's a certain wilfulness in talking to the NME...

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