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25 examples of Willfully in a sentence

It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to, because we can't handle, don't want to handle, the conflict that it provokes.
Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.
We're all, under certain circumstances, willfully blind.
And this research can help parents and the general public understand that teens aren't just willfully ignoring warnings or simply defying parents by engaging in increasingly more dangerous behavior.
It feels to me that the platforms that we use to inhabit these online spaces have been designed either ignorantly or willfully to allow for harassment and abuse, to propagate misinformation, to enable hatred and hate speech and the violence that comes from it, and it feels like none of our current platforms are doing enough to address and to fix that.
Denis makes a quantum leap in this film, an orgy of gorgeous cinematography, elliptical editing and willfully obscure narrative events that feels strange and acts even stranger.
The actors have little ability in comic timing (what halfway decent comedic director would willfully hire George Lopez to be in their movie?), and Robert Ben Garant often fails to sell the jokes, even when they are potentially amusing.
Having emerged from the position of the sick man of Europe only a decade ago, Germany is now willfully, if thoughtlessly, undoing the reforms that had so strengthened its economy.
If our leaders can be so willfully wrong about such consequential matters, how can we believe anything they tell us?
During President George W. Bush's administration, the US was willfully destructive of its global interests when it disregarded international law on issues like torture.
The targets should be ISPs that willfully serve criminal customers, refusing to deal with complaints to the point that ignorance is no longer a legitimate excuse.
Russia may be willfully underreporting its TB burden, and some African countries do not know how many of their citizens are infected.
Threats are not like weather events; they are backed by human calculation (something we almost willfully obscure when we include pandemics and climate change in our definition of “security”).
The lesson in the open Kryvorizhstal auction is clear: if a president may not act willfully, arbitrarily, by personal prerogative, then no one may.
Yet, once again, the US government has willfully ignored the SDGs, ranking last among the G20 countries in terms of government implementation efforts.
Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others.
But one must be almost willfully blind to miss the big picture, because Putin’s tactics – pouncing on the slightest breach or sign of weakness in Europe in order to sow division – have been remarkably consistent.
Indians remain bewildered that the US State Department would so willfully jeopardize a relationship that American officials had been describing as “strategic” over a practice routinely followed by foreign diplomats for decades.
The first thing any society can and should do is deny respectability to political and business leaders who willfully abuse the public trust.
In 2018, the now defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was said to have willfully spread fake news on social media in order to persuade Americans to vote for Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.
But an India that is perceived as bigoted, with a government that, intoxicated by intolerant majoritarianism, is willfully driving sectarian wedges between its people, can forget about the global embrace on which its future depends.
In my recent book What’s Wrong with Economics?, I argue that, in their attempt to establish universal laws, economists willfully ignored the particularities of histories and culture.
The US has willfully and recklessly created an enemy for no reason other than its own misguided actions.
After reflecting whether he rightly understood the meaning of the other, the surgeon, making due allowance for the love of learning, acting upon a want of education, replied,-"The moon, you mean; many philosophers have doubted how far it affects the tides; but I think it is willfully rejecting the lights of science not to believe it causes both the flux and reflux."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."