wilful

• Mrs. Grant declared that the child was stubborn, wilful, and disobedient, needing frequent and severe punishment. —  Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People
• Even sinners,--wilful, abandoned sinners,--if they would be honest enough to speak as they really in their hearts feel, would own, while they are indulging in the pleasures of sin, while they idle away the Lord's Day, or while they keep bad company, or while they lie or cheat, or while they drink to excess, or do any other bad thing,--they would confess, I say, did they speak their minds, that it is a far happier thing, even at present, to live in obedience to God, than in obedience to Satan. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
• It is more generous and certainly more probable to suppose that Amy Robsart by her own act--wilful, at the dictate of a brain disordered by grief, or accidental--removed the barrier to her husband's passion for his Queen. —  Love Romances of the Aristocracy
• She is wilful, as you are, and I cannot bend her. —  Mr. Scarborough's Family
• But you've been wilful -- foolish. —  The Man of the Forest

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