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Wileful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Colin Wiles is an independent housing consultant Interested in housing?
  • (2) It may be this that compels her to view every man she meets as an opportunity to test whether her wiles are still in full working order, probably unconsciously and probably even if they happen to be the partners of her female friends.
  • (3) Finance minister John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland he still hoped for a breakthrough at "this very, very, very late stage in the process", saying: Everybody is agreed that this plant has a strong future with the necessary investment and that is why the Scottish Government is wiling to be a player in that.
  • (4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
  • (5) But it does explain what might otherwise seem puzzling, that the many Evangelicals among them are perfectly wiling to overlook every transgression in Trump’s past and every crudeness and cruelty in his present conduct, and also to forgive in anticipation whatever future sin might be entailed in breaking up immigrant families or fomenting conflict abroad.
  • (6) We also do this with actors, comedians and musicians, because we are wiling to accept the “bad boy” persona as part of the act.
  • (7) After an arduous journey, usually through Thailand and the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, they may end up in Puncak wiling away the time, bemoaning the UNHCR and listless days, playing soccer, and swapping stories of ingenious detention escapes.
  • (8) In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
  • (9) When Warner had 89, Prior missed a second stumping off Swann, who used all his wiles to try to keep things in check, and was a strong contributing factor to Alastair Cook missing a catch, offered by the left-hander Rogers, wide to his right hand at first slip, that a confident keeper would have taken.
  • (10) Bayer Leverkusen beat Leicester City in race to sign Charles Aránguiz Read more Wolfsburg have so far insisted that they are not interested in selling a player signed last January from Chelsea for £18m, although it is understood that they would be wiling to do business at around £50m.
  • (11) His skill, wile and connections were insufficient, however, to allow him to survive indefinitely.
  • (12) "I don't blame the media and the Labour front bench for talking about U-turns but actually if more ministers were wiling to put forward proposals and then alter them in the light of evidence that came forth we'd actually have better government."
  • (13) Tripoli is an exception to this rule because the Lebanese disease of neglect of more distant regions has left the city captive to the wiles of radical Sunni groups and jihadists.
  • (14) The size and the extent of foliation of the chimeric cerebella were intermediate between wile-type and homozygous Staggerer.
  • (15) Wile pressor and reflex bradycardic responses to angiotensin II were not altered by prazosin, reflex tachycardia produced produced by histamine and acetylcholine were significantly attenuated by prazosin.
  • (16) Clegg will leave Brighton aware that his apology on tuition fees has not led to an immediate lift in his poll standing, but aware that most senior figures are wiling him to take the party into the next election, and broadly happy with his positioning of the party at the centre of the political spectrum.
  • (17) One depicted him as the Road Runner, Bartra the Wile E Coyote trailing in his wake.
  • (18) Charities are especially vulnerable – perhaps more so than businesses – to the wiles and charms of the next celebrity savior.
  • (19) One patient had a spontaneous remission during pregnancy wile taking propranolol.
  • (20) Stiviano's court filing rejected the idea that her “feminine wiles … overpowered the iron will of Donald T Sterling who is well known as one of the most shrewd businessmen in the world”.

Willful


Definition:

  • (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.
  • (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
  • (4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
  • (8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
  • (9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
  • (10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
  • (11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
  • (12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
  • (13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
  • (14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
  • (15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
  • (16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
  • (17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
  • (18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
  • (19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
  • (20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.

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