wantonness
- a word derived from wanton.
Example Sentences
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For in war, or danger, or hunger, or sickness, who would value tobacco, or money, or the pomposity of Pride, or would entertain a thought of welcoming either Wantonness or Sloth?
From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry
Wantonness, licentiousness, avarice, and the other vices which stained their conduct, discovered their secret intentions.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.
Without Innocence, Beauty is unlovely, and Quality contemptible, Good-breeding degenerates into Wantonness, and Wit into Impudence.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Thus thou art nought without Pride; and little would Pride profit without Wantonness, for bastards are the most numerous and the most fierce of all the subjects of my daughter Pride.
From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon
His Flight between the several Worlds that shined on every side of him, with the particular Description of the Sun, are set forth in all the Wantonness of a luxuriant Imagination.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
