wantonness
- a word derived from wanton.
Example Sentences
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Plenty begets Wantonness and Pride, Wantonness is apt to invent, and Pride scorns to imitate; Liberty begets Stomach or Heart, and Stomach will not be constrain’d.
From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.
The Thought, in this Place, is very lively and just, but quite obscur'd by the Redundancy and Wantonness of the Expression.
From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf
Wantonness among his own kin he recompensed relentlessly, but the offences of others he treated with humaneness.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
They proceed from a Wantonness of Imagination, and rather divert the Mind than astonish it.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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
