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    [Adjective]  | "will*ful" | \ ˈwil-fəl \


    1: obstinately and often perversely self-willed

    2: done deliberately : intentional


    Origin: 13th century ;

    [Adverb]  | "willfully" 


    1: with full awareness of what one is doing;


      * e.g., " ... willfully chose to risk pneumonia by jumping into a freezing lake on a dare "





    [Adjective]  | "willful" 


    1: given to resisting authority or another's control;


      * e.g., " ... a particularly willful horse that took weeks to break to saddle "





    2: given to resisting control or discipline by others;


      * e.g., " ... finally the parents sought professional counseling for the willful child "





    3: having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity;


      * e.g., " ... a willful disregard for the rights of others "





     [ "Willfully contradictory" ]

    1: Someone who is bossy one minute, then at an oppurtune time says something like you're not the boss of me (possibly the next minute). Someone who changes their image sometimes more than once in one day (not just an online screen name or something relatively benign, but in real life/on TV/youtube videos/other mediums).

      * e.g.,  ... This other guy, as insane as he might seem, is at least on a steady, even keel all the time, where he's no more or less human, no more or less inhuman, no more or less bossy, no more or less subserviant to anyone at any time, since he's the same guy underneath the surface all the time and doesn't claim to be in any particular character at any particular time. At least he is not willfully contradictory, since being willfully contradictory comes with inconsistancies. 

     [ "Willfully contradictory" ]

    1: Someone that tries to discredit the way you treated them as inhuman after they tried to make you feel insignificant about your skinny arms and shit like that. Then they still try to twist it around to where you made it one sided.

      * e.g.,  ... He/she is willfully contradictory for such a broad minded person, or does it just seem that way to me because my view of the world is as narrow as it is? 

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