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Meanings of wantonly in English

In a licentious and promiscuous manner.

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Examples for "promiscuously"
Examples for "promiscuously"
1
With them dwell promiscuously all the young unmarried women of the tribe.
African Camp Fires
2
People of all the different tribes meet and mingle promiscuously among themselves.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
3
I daresay you have thrown it into a drawer or somewhere, promiscuously.
Hard Cash
4
Here they sit down promiscuously, and dine at so much a head.
Travels through France and Italy
5
At night they are more plentiful, and seem to be aimed promiscuously.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
1
Conjecture, though it be sometimes unavoidable, I have not wantonly nor licentiously indulged.
Preface to Shakespeare
2
But shall I on this account run riot and write licentiously?
The Works of Horace
3
The Ranters mingled a little truth with much error-abused their Christian liberty-andlived licentiously, and were a scandal to religion.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
4
His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum.
Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
5
For instance, he appointed a guardian over a certain senator that lived licentiously, as he might have done for a child.
Dio's Rome, Volume 4 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
Usage of wantonly in English
1
In other words, I wantonly ignite barns that belong to other people.
The Elephant Vanishes
2
This is the third calamity in which he has wantonly involved himself.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat,...
3
Wars would, in general, be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
4
Prisoners were murdered in cold blood and women were wantonly shot down.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
5
Never were the environs of a city so wantonly and recklessly degraded.
Worldly Ways & Byways
6
Ye have too cruel eyes, and ye look wantonly towards the sufferers.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
7
The Master would not have allowed the suspense to dissipate so wantonly.
Reuters
8
Such articles as the soldiers could not carry away they wantonly destroyed.
Fighting in Flanders
9
This was not the game they wanted, and they never killed wantonly.
The Border Watch: A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand
10
Tables and chairs were wantonly smashed and there was black ruin everywhere.
A Minstrel in France
11
The Airedale, Bondsman, had once been shot wantonly by a stray Apache.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
12
No one else grubs up the moss so wantonly as Tommy Brock.
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
13
Many a mind misinterprets the thing seen, sometimes innocently, and again wantonly.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
14
As he never wantonly gave so he never tamely brooked an indignity.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charle...
15
But Lee, he was the one who was wantonly disgracing their race.
Mortal Allies
16
She wantonly does things which she knows will cause me endless misery.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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