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Definition
of something considered bad: excessive, thoughtless indulgence — such as waste, cruelty, violence, and (especially in the past) sexual promiscuity
- The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.Chapter 16 (30% in)
- When she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile he fell back and hid his face in his hands.Chapter 16 (37% in)
- So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.Chapter 27 (50% in)
There are no more uses of "wanton" in Dracula.
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