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How to use Wanton in a sentence

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Picasso's masterpiece articulates the horror and outrage felt by all civilized people at the wanton bombing of an open city.
It is his own wanton destruction of the bountiful and generous Mother Earth which will finally compel him to change his ways.
A young man starting out in life has had his business badly damaged by this wanton destruction.
Just like without the wanton slaughter, rape and theft of Native Americans and their territories there would be NO USA whatsoever!
But legitimate protest has become mixed up with wanton destruction or even violence unrelated to the activities of the businesses attacked.
This wanton act of vandalism took a lot of effort and it's a sad reflection on how society can be today.
But behind the comic veneer was a clear message about the dangers of wanton sexual activity.
A few kisses in the moonlight and I turned into a shameless, wanton creature so unlike myself.
Sure there were a few drunks and wanton women scattered around the common room of the Gray Mule Inn, but it seemed like a friendly place.
For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress with a dozen regular gentlemen callers and a bedside drawer full of Mates.
Together they roam the streets, picking up prostitutes and other willing, wanton woman to calm their near-desperate need for the female form.
She, who had not come to wanton, used a borrowed wantonness as the instrument of her devotion and courage.
The wanton gesticulations of a Virgin in a wild assembly of Gallants, warmed with wine could be no other then riggish, and unmaidenly.
The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.
The boom in bipolar disorder may in part be the outgrowth of wanton diagnosis of attention deficit disorder in schoolchildren.
The Marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.
It is they who shoved us into wanton consumerism, into a society in which we must maintain a champagne lifestyle on mauby pockets.
It is becoming fashionable now that any slight incident of misunderstanding should discharge wanton destruction and lawlessness.
When a young poet fails to find the words he can moan and wail and lament his wanton muse, gone off and left him bereft and lonesome.
In this fact every other possible cruelty, tyranny, and wanton oppression was by implication included.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cheapness caused by gluts of the market is merely a disease of clumsy and wanton commerce.
How could I have imagined that a young noble would be grateful, or a wanton true?
More deeds of needless bloodshed were perpetrated by his wanton command until every remnant of the Hasmonean house was destroyed.
Is there one who prefers my writings to those of the salacious warbler, the wanton lacivious little Moore?
They are the spontaneous expression of careless, wanton, unreflective youth.
And so an ancient monument must be destroyed either out of wanton mischief, or to be broken up for the repair of a fence!
Unluckily it brought down a Sioux warrior, for whose wanton destruction threefold vengeance had been taken, as has been stated.
That still doesn't excuse a wanton and unprovoked aggression!
To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.
Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.
Men of prudence and discretion, Courtiers gay and gallant knights, With the wanton damsels dally, But the modest take to wife.
And who was benefitted by such wanton destruction of property.
Riot, arson, and wanton destruction of property was their function, and well they performed it.
But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.
She was as wanton as a Polynesian dancer and as demanding as a nympho.
Wherefore a man ought not to play the wanton, but should learn in season.
So utterly wanton and uncalled-for was the attack that it found the girl entirely unprepared, and what would have happened had not a warrior interfered may only be guessed.
Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of power, calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration?
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