| 词汇 | willful |
| 释义 | willful adjective uk /ˈwɪl.fəl/ us /ˈwɪl.fəl/ US spelling ofwilfuldisapproving（wilful 的美式拼写） Strong-willed adamancy adamant adamantine adamantly aggressive grittily gutsily gutsy gutty hard-boiled pertinacious pertinaciously pigheaded pigheadedly purposeful ultra-militant ultra-serious unbending unbroken undaunted willful | American Dictionarywillful adjective us/ˈwɪl·fəl/ (of something bad) done intentionally, or (of a person) determined to do exactly as you want, even if you know it is wrong: I think he showed a willful disregard for safety. Examples of willfulwillful Relativism counsels tolerance, it is believed, whereas nonrelativism engenders accusations of irrationality or willful malice and a dogmatic attachment to one's own cultural prejudices. The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully. Although done in the name of freeing nature's own expressiveness, the willful and directed character of chemists' activity necessarily constrained the outcome. By the looks of it, the alien hand is quite willful. A dignified being cannot be unwise, unjust, willful, or cowardly. Kipling's willful refusal to employ categories of race is at variance with his standard fictional practice. This is most easily accomplished in an environment of willful (not forced) collaboration, peace, and serious concern for the betterment of communities. First, it gives rise to free and willful transactions. At times, the forced participation in collective violence against the willful verged on riot. This willful destruction of languages reduces cultural diversity and thus creates an unhealthy sociopolitical climate. The most typical contraindication that carries this implication is "noncompliance," portrayed as a willful act. Although animals and (young) children move, transfor m and destroy matter, such actions do not establish rights claims because such actions are not willful. The feeling of conation, resurrected briefly as a willful "cognitive emotion," is a promising candidate from that periconscious realm. Both involve a kind of willful blindness to history, a youthful refusal to be concerned with the dead. Modarres discusses the loss of local identity through willful destruction. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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