willfully
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This is a willfully ignorant reading of the current reality of the country’s electoral politics, but Anthony Liuzzo was unsurprised by it.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The reason: “You have willfully and deliberately failed to report to ‘in-person’ work,” the other co-owners wrote in a termination letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
“They willfully participated in his scams. They deserved to lose every penny,” another user wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Sometimes sheep are merely sheep, and sometimes they’re stand-ins for a willfully credulous populace.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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