All 4 Uses of
wanton
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- such wanton, wild, and usual slips As are companions noted and most known To youth and liberty.†
Scene 2.1 *
- I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.†
Scene 3.1
- Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out, That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft.†
Scene 3.4
- Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally; I pray you pass with your best violence: I am afeard you make a wanton of me.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
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(wanton) of something considered bad: excessive, thoughtless indulgence -- such as waste, cruelty, violence, and (especially in the past) sexual promiscuity