willfulness
- bullheadedness n.
- fanaticism n.
- hardheadedness n.
- mulishness n.
- obstinateness n.
- obstinateness n.
- obstreperousness n.
- pertinaciousness n.
- pertinacity n.
- perverseness n.
- perversity n.
- pigheadedness n.
- recalcitrance n.
- recalcitrancy n.
- refractoriness n.
- tenaciousness n.
- tenacity n.
- uncontrollability n.
- uncontrollableness n.
- ungovernableness n.
- unmanageability n.
- untowardness n.
- will n.
Example Sentences
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There’s a willfulness to the story that isn’t always easy to overlook, though the fluid staging gives the events a natural flow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
When Lucas’s actions offend the people around him, the priest’s motivation seems to be sheer willfulness, not spiritual conviction.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
It’s a hard and perilous excursion, one made increasingly more difficult by Lucas, whose self-confidence — inborn or instilled — rapidly hardens into dangerous willfulness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
She is as much of a royal as she is a would-be general, skilled at riding her dragons and standing up to her dangerous uncle Daemon, who appreciates her willfulness.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2022
He may have interpreted it as evidence of her stubbornness, her willfulness, her utter disregard of all his warnings, and so made a threat which would put a stop to this crazy talk about freedom.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
