Self-willed

Self-willed — devilish self-willed sometimes — I grant; but the finest creature, nevertheless, that ever walked the ways of this lower world.

The Moonstone 2003

Self-willed and self-centered, they bore honest criticism very badly.

Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester

Self-willed and arrogant, he could bully or whine with equal effect.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

Self-willed, excessively passionate, painfully truthful, bold as well as fearless and always against convention, I was, no doubt, extremely difficult to bring up.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

Self-willed and thoughtless -- even rude and hoydenish -- we may think her in these days of gentler manners and more guarded speech.

Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times, 1891

Self-willed, arrogant creatures are those same fates, but they save us a deal of trouble by assuming our responsibilities.

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884

Self-willed and thoughtless -- even rude and hoydenish -- we may think her in these days of gentler manners and more guarded speech.

Historic Girls Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

Self-willed freedom, which does as it likes, and heeds not God, ends in bondage, and is itself bondage.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868

Self-willed -- devilish self-willed sometimes -- I grant; but the finest creature, nevertheless, that ever walked the ways of this lower world.

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1856

Self-willed taking herself from very mate's very breast.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855