Synonyms
Examples for "wanton"
Examples for "wanton"
1
Added to this, the Wallack takes an actual pleasure in wanton destruction.
2
Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy
3
Sometimes I spy her afar off; but the wanton comes and goes.
4
And there will remain only the wanton soul in the virgin body.'
5
Did it make me a wanton to hope he might compliment me?
1
Did you not think there would be consequences to your unprovoked aggression?'
2
They seldom attack unprovoked and dine on insects harmful to local crops.
3
Gray had been arrested for fleeing officers unprovoked in a high-crime area.
4
They allege fans faced a number of assaults and unprovoked baton charges.
5
The demeaning attack was unprovoked from someone he had considered a friend.
1
Now, though, we are reaching a new peak of motiveless transgression.
2
To have tampered with her neutrality would have been motiveless folly.
3
In the atrocious context of battle, Briony's apparently motiveless crime is rendered almost insignificant.
4
To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.'
5
What motiveless malignity actuated Levi Baggs meanwhile, who can say?
6
Driven by a motiveless evil, Otello's ensign Iago poisons him against his blameless wife.
7
He was forcibly struck with the blind and comparatively motiveless pugnacity of the Squire's conduct.
8
Without it the rest is motiveless and inexplicable.
9
It was quite accidental, I do assure you; as much so, perhaps, as it was motiveless.
10
Many intellectual writers will say with motiveless malignity.
11
But it is persistent, incorrigible, irrational, motiveless, useless.
12
For those who like their thrills more psychological the malignance is, sometimes, a touch too motiveless.
13
The two boys dressed in white are meant to be evil incarnate -motiveless, unfathomable, inescapable.
14
As the crime was apparently motiveless, it was certain that the motive was deep and carefully hidden.
15
I would pray, as a man in mortal terror, against the bottomless pit of a motiveless existence.
16
They were stabbed more than 200 times in an apparently motiveless attack before the flat was set alight.