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Meanings of wanton in English
Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.
Synonyms
Examples for "light"
Examples for "light"
1
Please use this number for any future references to this light-bulb issue.
2
The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
3
With the clear morning light and dry roads, they made good time.
4
The light at this time of year has a particularly ethereal quality.
5
He made light of the problem but said he'd talk to Jason.
1
It is far too easy to blame 'special events' for curbing growth.
2
The investing process from there was fairly easy: long Japan, short France.
3
However, enforcement isn't always a given and tourists still remain easy targets.
4
Of course, just because the choice is clear doesn't mean it's easy.
5
Young people say pornography is too easy to watch in New Zealand.
1
Consider our work with former Soviet states to secure loose nuclear material.
2
Read: New law banning loose cigarette sales hurts spaza shops and hawkers
3
Tufts loose; ovicell small in proportion to the size of the cells.
4
In fact today it was very loose: almost ready to fall off.
5
Dow's solution involves cutting loose Greece and Portugal, and probably Ireland too.
1
The list became an essential tool for making sense of promiscuous consumption.
2
Free love in the promiscuous sense is no uglier than coupled loathing.
3
Not surprisingly, homosexual men are far more promiscuous than their lesbian counterparts.
4
You don't go dropping in on your General in that promiscuous style.
5
The other sides were thronged with a promiscuous multitude of all colors.
1
One is the 19-year-old sluttish Sylvie; the other is the young actor, Patrick.
2
So Noorna continued slapping Kadza, and cried, 'Is she not sluttish?
3
I will not have him think us poor or sluttish.
4
I would not have him think us poor or sluttish.'
5
He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the brief-case.
Usage of wanton in English
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?
6
Yes, the ANC has been embattled by wanton corruption, nepotism and factionalism.
7
God forgive me for that wanton crime; he lived only two hours.
8
Show the wanton satyrs what kind of blood you have in you.
9
We feast the wanton who is wise and bracket Marguerite with Messalina.
10
The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton she-goat.
11
In it, along with much wanton cruelty, was displayed much excellent heroism.
12
In his wanton presence, all logic was lost, all outcomes were imaginable.
13
I will part with anything but lust and pride, saith the wanton.
14
Now the distant waves rise, and wanton and play, pure and lucid.
15
But it is wanton killing off that I am speaking of to-night.
16
Those wanton gospellers, the pigeons yonder, Are now the only Sabbath-breakers left.
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Translations for wanton
Portuguese
Spanish
Wanton through the time
Wanton across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common