willful

willful
    adj 1: done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful
           disobedience" [syn: {willful}, {wilful}]
    2: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn:
       {froward}, {headstrong}, {self-willed}, {willful}, {wilful}]
    

Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.]
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   1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful
      murder. --Foxe.
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            In willful poverty chose to lead his life.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            Thou to me
            Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
            Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason;
      obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as,
      a willful man or horse.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Will"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Will"ful*ness},
      n.
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133 Moby Thesaurus words for "willful":
      advised, aimed, aimed at, arbitrary, autonomous, balking, balky,
      bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, calculated,
      case-hardened, conscious, considered, contemplated, contumacious,
      decided, deliberate, deliberated, designed, determined,
      discretional, discretionary, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic,
      elective, envisaged, envisioned, factious, fanatic, free,
      free will, froward, gratuitous, hardheaded, headstrong, heady,
      independent, indisciplined, insubordinate, intended, intentional,
      intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, knowing, lawless,
      licentious, meant, meditated, mulish, mutinous, naughty,
      nonconforming, nonmandatory, obstinate, of design, offered,
      opinionated, optional, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious,
      perverse, pigheaded, planned, proffered, projected, proposed,
      purposed, purposeful, purposive, rampant, recusant, reinless,
      resolved, restive, self-acting, self-active, self-determined,
      self-determining, self-willed, set, spontaneous, stiff-necked,
      strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, studied, sulky, sullen,
      teleological, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unasked,
      unbesought, unbidden, unbridled, uncalled-for, unchecked,
      uncoerced, uncompelled, uncomplying, uncontrolled, uncooperative,
      uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforced,
      ungoverned, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted,
      unregenerate, unreined, unrequested, unrequired, unrestrained,
      unsolicited, unsought, violative, voluntary, volunteer, wayward,
      wildcat, willing, witting, wrongheaded