Wilfulness: alternatives and connections

a tort based on willful and malicious interference with the marriage relation by a third party without justification or excuse

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…

The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, o…

Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.

A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court w…

Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audaci…

A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's du…

(law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)

Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the st…

Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.

Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certa…

to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices o…