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Meanings of mere wantonness in English

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Usage of mere wantonness in English
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This being accomplished they would torture and murder the traders in mere wantonness.
Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson
2
At Lyons they destroyed the hospitals and orphan asylums, out of mere wantonness.
France in the Nineteenth Century
3
MR. H. I wrote that in mere wantonness of triumph.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 / The Letters of C...
4
It was done in mere wantonness, for they could not have known who we were.
Peter Biddulph: The Story of an Australian Settler
5
They kill without reason, and destroy in mere wantonness.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
6
A rumour went abroad of certain women who had drowned, in mere wantonness, their newborn babes.
Imaginary Portraits
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They may have been inflicted from mere wantonness.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
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Sometimes people kill us from mere wantonness.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Sometimes people kill us for mere wantonness.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it
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Wading through blood they seized province after province of the empire, destroying and massacring often in mere wantonness.
The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present T...
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To the religion of his country he offered, in the mere wantonness of impiety, insults too foul to be described.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
12
Yielding to all the whims of a child,-pickingup its toys when thrown away in mere wantonness, would be intolerable.
The Book of Household Management
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Evidently they must have had some trading crew tire a parting shot in mere wantonness at them from their boat.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
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The Democratic canvass was thus inaugurated, and the overthrow of the party provided for in the mere wantonness of political folly.
Political Recollections / 1840 to 1872
15
When his pursuers had him in their possession, they shot him in the leg, and broke it, out of mere wantonness.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Just now, as I have lain by a long while, I grow sleek, and scribble on in mere wantonness of spirit.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
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Mere wantonness across language varieties
United Kingdom
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