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Definition
of something considered bad: excessive, thoughtless indulgence — such as waste, cruelty, violence, and (especially in the past) sexual promiscuity
- every idle, nice and wanton reason4.1 — Act 4 Scene 1 — Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest (84% in)
wanton = of something considered bad
- Thou art a guard too wanton for the head Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — Warkworth. Before the castle (75% in)
- Briefly to this end: we are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it; of which disease Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.4.1 — Act 4 Scene 1 — Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest (26% in)
There are no more uses of "wanton" in Henry IV, Part 2.
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