Sample Sentences for
wanton
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    "My daughter is no wanton," Nathan replied.  (source)
    wanton = someone who is sexually promiscuous
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    They got back into the truck and continued the patrol, past the Hickey house, empty, door open, windows wantonly smashed.  (source)
    wantonly = in a bad (thoughtlessly violent and wasteful) manner
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    ...elders of the church have whispered wanton words to the young maids of their households;  (source)
    wanton = improper sexually suggestive
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    There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.  (source)
    wanton = excessive, thoughtless indulgence
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    I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.†  (source)
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    He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power.  (source)
    wantonness = something excessively bad
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The Codds were not well regarded in the Iron Islands; the men were said to be thieves and cowards, the women wantons who bedded with their own fathers and brothers.†  (source)
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    His thin black hair, fine spun, was fanned lightly from its elegance by a wantoning breeze.†  (source)
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    Such was the glitt'ring; such the ruddy rind, And dancing leaves, that wanton'd in the wind.†  (source)
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    Their glittering tents he passed, and now is come Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh, And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm; A wilderness of sweets; for Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.†  (source)
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    Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman's power overpower this man.  (source)
    wanton = a woman who is sexually promiscuous
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    Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favorite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.†  (source)
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    Nathan was made feverish by sex, and trembled afterward, praying aloud and blaming me for my wantonness.†  (source)
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