Wanton
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
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Wanton Quotations
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
Thomas More
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Margaret Cavendish
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
Abe Fortas
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