Intending and Willing

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Willing and intending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Willing" instead an adjective "Intending".

Nearby Words: intent, intended, intension

Willing adjective - Having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action).

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Intending and willing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intending" instead an adjective "Willing".

Nearby Words: will, willingly, willingness, willed

Real life "liars" are intending to make people trust them, and thus are perfectly willing to at least occasionally tell the truth.

Source: Knights and Knaves
Perfectly polite, willing to create a robotic double so Timmy's parents don't worry about his disappearance, but also intending to destroy the boy and perfectly willing to add Amanda to the mix because it would upset the boy.

Source: Fan Fic / Never Had A Friend Like Me
Of course, the kicker of it all is the last two scenes of the movie, where it's revealed that Bourne's ally is not an ally at all, just another power-hungry bureaucrat intending to use Bourne as her pawn and willing to kill him if he refuses, and that Bourne rightly distrusts her.

Source: Darker And Edgier / Film

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