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Meanings of wantonness in English
Portuguese
licenciosidade The trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry.
Usage of wantonness in English
1
He was as infamous in wantonness as Frode was illustrious in war.
2
Curiosity and wantonness made me escape with him; you know the rest.
3
With the last gleam of day it left the stage to wantonness.
4
Partly for wantonness, partly to vent his spleen upon some living creature.
5
Think of my wantonness-mywickedness-notof my poor, tormented attempts at happiness.
6
This is the very wantonness of cheap goods and an unfettered commerce!
7
And you, O new made husband, how tumble you now in wantonness!
8
What insolence and wantonness rather, has he omitted in refusing to come?
9
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness.
10
So in sheer wantonness of joy we sought relief in bantering one another.
11
No other piece of wantonness equaled it in the tumultuous history of Versailles.
12
This being accomplished they would torture and murder the traders in mere wantonness.
13
He devastates his own kingdom in the wantonness of his force.
14
The wantonness and sort of rage of it all appalled one.
15
It was something unusual, and brought out the ingenuity and wantonness of cruelty.
16
Because, in Mother's opinion, foreigners were synonymous with wantonness and debauchery.
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