Modifies a noun

• misconduct: For a pandemic, however, Republican leaders would allow suits only if there was willful misconduct.

• ignorance: I think willful ignorance is a little closer to the mark.

• blindness: What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness.

• disregard: The same photographs also reveal a willful disregard of the domination they desired.

• killing: Willful killing is a grave breach ( war crime ) under the " grave breach " article in each of the four Geneva Conventions.

• neglect: Lawyers OnLine does not exclude or restrict liability for death or personal injury caused by its own willful neglect or negligence.

Modifying Another Word

• apparently: The limpidity of Chandler's style is a refreshing change from much of the apparently willful obfuscation which paradoxically prevails in communication studies.