Examples of 'self-willed' in a sentence

Meaning of "self-willed"

Self-willed describes a person who is stubborn and determined to do what they want, even if others advise against it
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  • Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others. He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction or direction.
  • Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others.
  • He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction or direction.
  • Possessing self-will; determined to pursue one's own desires or adhere to one's own opinion..

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Self-willed and committed local communities.
Handmade furniture with a self-willed character.
The self-willed have the emptiness of a tautology.
He does not want your self-willed sacrifices.
Something self-willed and determined had cut through the dusk.
Belief in a multitude of self-willed gods.
He was always self-willed and cruel and you encouraged him.
Its lungs can breathe only self-willed air.
Self-willed introspection leads to infinite regression and formal logical paradoxes.
He was one zealously pursuing a self-willed course which he thought was right.
Any self-willed aesthetic quest was in practice equated with political betrayal.
We believed that he had preferred to die alone in an exile only partially self-willed.
Self-willed and boisterous, he had not infrequent difficulties early in his naval career.
As the series opens it is not common knowledge that some robots are self-willed.
It is at the same time a funny self-willed expression of the anarchistic and / or autonomous scene.

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This stage marks a transition from normal activity to a state of " limited self-willed mobility.
He is a self-willed individual set up against the coercive strictures of social rules and mores.
But it is a psycho-somatic response to what the medical community refers to as a self-willed death.
Next followed their self-willed purpose of having a king like the nations around them.
What if you lived your whole life in delusion and self-willed rebellion against truth?
They are usually self-willed because they are used to looking out for their own self-interests.
American culture only reinforces this innate self-willed resistance to trusting God.
The self-willed Nimrod is associated with the heart.
The emanations of Self-willed oppress her again.
Self-willed aideth his emanations and they again oppress Sophia.
CANON about the self-willed belly of its deceased.
Both the Swedes and Geats were displeased with the self-willed rule of the king.
Most of the self-willed characteristics of the Capitalists come entirely from greed.
In the meanwhile Anund tried to avert the self-willed plans of his Viking allies.
But the proud, self-willed monarchs of the world always set themselves up against God.
But conventions and burden of prejudice have strong power over the independent and self-willed Diana.
This leader is so arrogant and self-willed that he will stand up against Jesus Christ!
The self-willed manmukh dwells in misery forever, while the Lord bestows greatness upon the Gurmukh.
For St Benedict humility is not a self-willed project of improvement.
Self-willed Christians do little to nothing for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Since Fetchers are conjured from Nothing and not self-willed beings, they are not true Nithlings.
Self-willed and sensible.
This is completely autonomous, self-willed nature.
Presumption is a premature, self-willed anticipation of the fulfillment of what we hope for from God.
She is intelligent and self-willed.
I am not so self-willed any longer.
Even as believers, we are not immune to this self-willed attitude.
Rome is self-willed and closed.
And good to his parents, and was not self-willed or disobedient.
We are self-willed and proud.
If the latter is killed, all the victims become self-willed.
He is a self-willed fellow.
To them, anyone with leadership skills is somehow self-willed or evil.
Satan was the first self-willed being who still promotes " do as thou wilt ".
You were fearless, passionate and yes, somewhat stubborn and self-willed.

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