willful
adjective
- asserting/disposed to assert one's own will over persuasion/instruction/command
Wiktionary
adj
- American standard spelling of wilful.
“I may well say that a willfuler woman, and one more wedded unto her own opinion, without order, reason, and discretion, I never did know or heard of.”
“I hope you’ll excuse the liberty, but I’ve come to Detmold along with Herr Peters, the apothecary, in his pony chaise; and a willfuler-minded beast I never sat behind. A taste of the whip would do him good, and if he was mine he should have it.”