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willful
Doing as one pleases; self-willed
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  1. Doing as one pleases; self-willed
  2. In criminal law, an act done stubbornly or with an evil intent.
  3. Stubborn.
opinionated
Having very strong opinions.
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  1. Having very strong opinions.
  2. Holding unreasonably or obstinately to one's own opinions
  3. Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.
contrary
(Music) Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
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  1. (Music) Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
  2. Adverse; unfavorable:
  3. Opposed, as in character or purpose:
stubborn
Done or carried on in an obstinate or doggedly persistent manner
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  1. Done or carried on in an obstinate or doggedly persistent manner
  2. Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
  3. Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
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  • His first music master was Gottlieb Muller, who thought him self-willed and eccentric; and his first production as a composer was an overture, performed at the Leipzig theatre in 1830.

  • She did not live very happily with her new husband, who was warlike and self-willed, and when he was taken prisoner by the Turks (1071) she was compelled to vacate the throne in favour of her son Michael and retire to a convent, where she died.

  • Urban was vain, self-willed and extremely conscious of his position; he accepted the papacy chiefly as a temporal principality, and made it his first care to provide for its defence and to render it formidable.

  • He is alternately the oppressor and the victim of heroic and self-willed nobles - the idealized types of the patrons for whom the jongleurs and troubadours sang.

  • But like too many of them, he was self-conscious, self-willed and dogmatic; and his transformation in middle life, while it im- mensely enriched his sympathies as well as his energies, left him unable to put himself in the place of those who retained the views which he had himself held.

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