adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
damage
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He then smashed up his cell and began his detention with a three month sentence for assault and wilful damage .
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Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Billy is a very wilful little boy who's constantly being punished for not doing as he's told.
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Sometimes kids who are described as difficult or wilful just need a little extra love and attention.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually the quarrel was largely due to Apollinaire's careless use of terms and to a rather wilful misunderstanding on the part of Boccioni.
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And just as her peculiar, rebellious, wilful escapade had gone wrong ... so had theirs.
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For doubt, full grown, is not a lapse of memory but a wilful refusal to remember.
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He lived a very wilful life, and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood.
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Indeed, her doubt could be described as wilful blindness.
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Partly, no doubt, the figures include at least some wilful or at least entirely feckless credit misusers.
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She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta, but there was real, wilful contrariness in it, I suspected.
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The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder.