Under the nose may face on or faces takes care of a matter wilfully, does not have to replace the grinding wheel piece then to resharpen the bevel edge.
He writhed under the jokes, practical and otherwise, which were perpetually made at his expense, and yet never ceased, it seemed wilfully, to expose himself to them.
Twelve of the 15 council members of the philosophy faculty decided she had “systematically and wilfully” presented other people's ideas as her own in her dissertation on “Person and Conscience”.
I confess that I—wilfully did not undo the door the first time she knocked—but—I should have unfastened it the second—if I had not thought you had gone to do it yourself.
Increasing obesity levels are not the result of the nation becoming more wilfully irresponsible about its nutrition choices or parents deliberately choosing to load their children's diets with unhealthy foods.
Caroline sees that her brother is in love with you and has taken him up to persuade him otherwise, but I know how to be incapable of wilfully deceiving anyone.