wilful blindness
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Deliberate avoidance of confirming a fact so as to deny knowledge of it.
The courier's wilful blindness to the contents of the parcel would not shield him from the trafficking charge.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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