How To Use Wanton In A Sentence

Jackson and Lee continued to preside over the wanton slaughter of men, women and children to defend the rights of freedom for white Virginians while supporting the slavery of black Virginians, among others.
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
The later patriarchal cultures denounced them as immoral and wanton.
The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Boyhood in Norway
As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! ' Arabian nights. English

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A football match gives no excuse for wanton violence. The Sun
Suffice to say that BECAUSE we can sue employers for injuries and harassment at work, they're not in a position to take wanton liberties with the employees who generate their profits.
In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly. ANC Daily News Briefing
And whether you visit Nadine Dorries MP's blog of wanton barminess here or otherwise here where "here" and "here" are at one and the some place you will find that her parliamentary blogcullis is gone. The Dorries Sensation: Gazillion Hits, Official
He is a resolutely loutish, wantonly violent thug.
Her friendship with the fashion glitterati would be endangered by Ronan's cowboy sense of style, his membership at the golf club threatened by her wild and wanton ways.
Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season. Times, Sunday Times
Great God! Forgive an injury so wanton, so excuseless! To-morrow?
One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
But let's remain mindful of the real human cost of wanton destruction. Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima'
DBX 2 EML is a free software, you can use wantonly and distribute, but must contain this text.
Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.
The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, took a tough line, saying that he would not tolerate wanton destruction and violence.
For all the freak imagery and wanton derangement, there was a certain plausibility to the pop stars of the sixties.
I'd stop off at Hebron and hire the local wanton and have her wash my feet first. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Maybe, in a truly punky and wanton act of hypocrisy, she might even return to the company.
Tangential factoids, unrhymed chiming, and wanton speculation: New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani is somehat, er, somewhat known for her frequent use of the word limn, apparently it's an inside joke among writers and critics. Languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.
Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
The banking heir's wanton behaviour did not stop there. Times, Sunday Times
A few kisses in the moonlight and I turned into a shameless, wanton creature so unlike myself.
Lawless insolence, and wanton caprice" [Trench]. to work all uncleanness -- The Greek implies, "with a deliberate view to the working (as if it were their work or business, not a mere accidental fall into sin) of uncleanness of every kind." with greediness -- Greek, "in greediness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This is paired with Missy's wantonly lascivious delivery and interplay with her vocal partners.
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Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners. deep waters -- that is, "limpid," as deep waters are generally clear. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
That night I head to the pulsing potamic souq, more unruly and wanton than the counterpart in Cairo, where the shopkeepers hustle visitors like dice, shaking and prodding until the right answer rolls. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
I venture that these seemingly wanton acts of destruction were down to pent-up anger from his childhood. The Sun
I also cited corroboratory reports by the head of the Gaza observer force, Lt. - Col. R.F. Bayard of the US army, and by the editor of Al Hamishmar, Mark Gefen, who was an eyewitness to atrocities including wanton killing, for example, the murder of a doctor at Gaza hospital by an Israeli soldier. Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange
Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
Their love of sumptuous clothes is simultaneously the inspiration for and the evidence of their ‘wanton, lewd, and unchaste behavior’.
I've always used the character in this wanton way, as a punchbag of sorts.
As a non- governmentally operated enterprise growing up rapidly, Wantong Telecom Co. Ltd. (WT) is a mobile phone agent and a direct marketing retail dealer.
You see, by taking the trust fund surplus - almost $151 billion in the last fiscal year - away from those wanton spendthrifts in Congress, the administration will enforce that discipline.
In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential. The Sun
He unabashedly hits on women and has wanton sex with several women (not at the same time) - something Alex never would have done but always wanted to.
The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.
Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). Erica Abeel: The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
They also put an end to the wanton violence that followed the Government's rout. Times, Sunday Times
Shoppers yesterday spoke of their shock at the wanton act of vandalism as they walked past the flattened £1, 500 tree with its brightly coloured baubles strewn across the paving.
Not in chambering and wantonness; not in any of those lusts of the flesh, those works of darkness, which are forbidden in the seventh commandment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
So, sir stranger, thou art not ill-favoured from a woman's point of view, which was thy real object in coming to Thebes; thy hair is long because thou hast never been a wrestler, flowing right down thy cheeks most wantonly; thy skin is white to help thee gain thy end, not tanned by ray of sun, but kept within the shade, as thou goest in quest of love with beauty's bait. The Bacchantes
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Nothing else can describe such brutal massacres, such wanton destruction.
Their horse-drawn buggy is wantonly destroyed by a factory owner's automobile.
After three days of rioting, the police have begun to look as though they have surrendered the streets to young men intent on wanton violence and burglary. Times, Sunday Times
Make a fortune and waste it wantonly.
It is wanton and pointless vandalism which has caused a lot of disruption to the school, but also those who carry out such attacks are putting their own safety at risk.
The Marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.
This is a wanton waste. Times, Sunday Times
Still, it was generally agreed that it was my fault, as if I didn't have a pretty daughter then the kind of undesirables she so wantonly attracted wouldn't have been in our street.
I think I mind you threatened it before myself, and Doom is to be rouped at last to pleasure a wanton woman. Doom Castle
It is they who shoved us into wanton consumerism, into a society in which we must maintain a champagne lifestyle on mauby pockets.
In that there is no harm; for it importeth nothing else but that betwixt my wife and me there will occur some toyish wanton tricks which usually happen to all new-married folks. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
A nightshirt, or indeed any other kind of nightwear, was not only unnecessary but unwelcome as well when it came between her and the sensual warmth of Guard's skin, the touch of his hands and mouth, when-Shakily Rosy tried to banish her wantonly erotic thoughts, but as she glanced in the mirror she suspected that her flushed face and shining eyes gave her away. Unwanted Wedding
But none of this can ever justify the wanton destruction of innocent human lives by terror.
They equate risk taking with wanton greed and evildoing. Jerry Chautin: The Obama Administration is Discouraging Entrepreneurship by Preaching That Taking Risk is Evil
It is seen as the result of individual irresponsibility, of people wantonly sleeping around and neglecting to practise safe sex.
The boom in bipolar disorder may in part be the outgrowth of wanton diagnosis of attention deficit disorder in schoolchildren.
I dinna gie a proper sorting to yon twa silly jauds that gard me mak a bogle of you, and a fule of mysell — Ghaists! my certie, I sall ghaist them — If they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing, they wad play nae sic pliskies — it’s the wanton steed that scaurs at the windle-strae — Ghaists! wha e’er heard of ghaists in an honest house? Saint Ronan's Well
As stated in the supplement, the heritage erosion is due to ignorance, and not wanton destruction.
No! There's her pretty hat of straw Laid on the bench; but then they saw There was no ribbon round it; The garden all neglected; The rake and wat'ring-pot were down Amongst the jonquils overthrown; The broken-branched roses running riot; The dandelion, groundsell, all about; And the nice walks, laid out with so much taste, Now cover'd with neglected weeds and wanton waste. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
Bushes and trees grew wantonly, spilling and tumbling over one another.
The riots in August caused more than just anarchy, crime and wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
We are all fond of animals and abhor wanton or thoughtless cruelty to them. Times, Sunday Times
There is a great reason why credit issuers offer rewards - they work to make even the thriftiest cardholder spend money almost wantonly.
You really do not expect a fellow human being to wantonly attack your livelihood with such punishing vigour and regularity.
Avoiding ambiguity that requires the reader to wantonly misinterpret is less crucial than avoiding easy-to-fall-into ambiguities. I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar
She rolls her eyes, and gets this wanton look on her face whenever she tells me how sexy he is.
The honest working girl shuns the society of the wealthy wanton, and the stupid ignoramus, whatsoever his fortune, is accorded no seat at the symposiac -- is blackballed by the brotherhood of brains. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
I found her in vestito di confidenza, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, although I recollect it perfectly well. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The farms of Nixons, Swantons, Alex's, Stranos and Newlands roads are growing a variety of crops including sugar cane, peanuts, tomatoes, melons, pumpkins and maize.
For over forty years Swanton worked for the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology gathering ethnohistorical information about southeastern Indians.
You could get caught wantonly mucking up a wedding ceremony, if you put up your hand when the vicar says 'does anyone present know of just reason...' etc. and say 'because the bride is made entirely out of meringue!'
They spend money wantonly with no fear of reprisals at an election.
I speak, of course, of Riverdance, with its scantily clad females dancing in unison with men, in a vulgar display of wantonness and unbridled lust.
a franc should be different in weight and value from a shilling, and a zwanziger vary from both, is wanton loss of commercial power. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Her relationship with the US director is only one episode in a very wild and wanton life, which has provided her with plenty of other material to work with.
It is becoming fashionable now that any slight incident of misunderstanding should discharge wanton destruction and lawlessness.
For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress.
May not this breed an irresponsibility of cleverness, a wantonness, an irreverence -- what is vulgarly termed a "larkiness" -- on the part of the youthful genius who has, as it were, all his fortune in his pocket? Picture and Text 1893
It's a sad reflection that these acts of wilful and wanton vandalism appear to be increasing. Times, Sunday Times
Draw a chart of similarities between true roses and canker roses: both are deep dyed, both hang on thorns, both play wantonly as the zephyr discloses their covered buds.
They wantonly destroy the property and lives of a people who are as entitled to live on the land.
While we accept that feelings are running high on the issue of military landings at Shannon Airport, this kind of wanton vandalism does nothing to heighten our credibility and will probably do more damage than good.
It is a gentle uprising against wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Lady Clare did Shag felt in honor bound to do, and was conscious of no disgrace in his abject and ape-like imitation. Boyhood in Norway
Ktowever, what ihe with - held from the infant, ihe beftowed with the utmoft profufenefs on the poor unknown mother, whom ihe called an im - pudent flut, a wanton huffy, an audacious harlot, The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
During the wanton demolition of the Beauchamp chantry, where, "in marble tumbes," with his father and mother on either hand, the remains of Bishop Beauchamp had been unmolested for over three hundred years, his own tomb was "mislaid" and never recovered. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum
Giving it to them straight would be an act of wanton cruelty - to both parties. Times, Sunday Times
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
It must be regretted that no indication in his book, so far as it professes to deal with facts and with [190] persons not within the circle of his clients, would justify a belief that its wanton misstatements have filtrated through a mind entitled to declare, with the authority of self-consciousness, what a gentleman would or would not do under given circumstances. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
Sure there were a few drunks and wanton women scattered around the common room of the Gray Mule Inn, but it seemed like a friendly place.
4 Where that false couple were full closely ment full > very, exceedingly ment > joined; united sexually (pa.ppl. of "meng") 5 In wanton lust and lewd embracement: embracement > embrace, embraces; willing acceptance, _hence: _ eagerness The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
In confirmation hereof, Theophrastus, being asked on a time what kind of beast or thing he judged a toyish, wanton love to be? he made answer, that it was a passion of idle and sluggish spirits. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The law, while it assumes the guardianship of youth by suppressing immorality, still permits these wantons to rove, uncontrolled, among the virtuous as well as the profligate.
It's disgraceful how some people just wantonly vandalise other people's property.
I pity those who don't know the difference, but I am no longer forced to show up alongside them in wanton violation of my conscience, not to mention my sense of good taste. "The Liturgy Changes Us..."
The riots in August caused more than just anarchy, crime and wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
'hybris', which means 'excessive pride and wanton violence'. Metal Hammer
Nevertheless, her Highness, considering the ease as one of human frailty, hath not caused this wanton one to be scourged with nettles, or otherwise to dree penance; but, as two good brethren of the convent of Lindores, the Fathers Thickskull and The Fair Maid of Perth
Every police officer and prosecutor encounters a few such men: soulless abominations that delight in torment, betrayal, and wanton suffering.
We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Letters of Robert Burns
The corporate Visigoths' worst act of wanton destruction was the demolition of one of the most distinguished terraces ever designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, the genius of the genre.
In a wanton act of vandalism their car was broken into and rendered undrivable.
Both acts of wanton destruction were deliberately aimed at symbolically injuring the self-esteem of the targeted victims, beside tremendous loss of innocent lives.
(On catching sight of us, they attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction
Gone now were the buffoon tricks which the daughter of Acacius the bearward had learned in the amphitheatre; gone too was the light charm of the wanton, and what was left was the worthy mate of a great king, the measured dignity of one who was every inch an empress. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
This may sound like wishful thinking but how else will we create hope from the despair of untold child death, wanton neglect of girls and women, and a rich elite feasting on the misery of millions in poverty?
In 568 the Lombards invaded, a people even more wantonly destructive than the Vandals.
The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong.
On the other hand, there are too many lapses on the Government's part, if not deliberate mistakes, glaring errors and wanton blunders.
She, who had not come to wanton, used a borrowed wantonness as the instrument of her devotion and courage.
I do approve that of St. Ambrose (Comment. in Genesis xxiv. 51), which he hath written touching Rebecca's spousals, A woman should give unto her parents the choice of her husband, [5876] lest she be reputed to be malapert and wanton, if she take upon her to make her own choice; [5877] for she should rather seem to be desired by a man, than to desire a man herself. Anatomy of Melancholy
Each sailor or soldier is permitted to attach himself to one of the females: the permission and the caresses of the artful wanton have often lured the temporary parties to marry at Plymouth, more frequently to consummate the nuptials at Sydney: such a marriage manumits the convict. The History of Tasmania , Volume II
For the perverse pleasure in wanton (self -) destruction? A most poor credulous monster
The pseudo-Michael Scot among the _Signa mulieris calidæ naturæ et quæ coit libenter_ stated that her hair, both on the head and body, is thick and coarse and crisp, and Della Porta, the greatest of the physiognomists, said that thickness of hair in women meant wantonness. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
If these were wanton act of miscreants, one incident that took place inside the Government Medical College campus on Thursday has proved that even the literates are not bothered to ‘rescue’ a roadside tree from being consumed by flames.
But I get frustrated at the holier-than-thou attitude some of the anti-paper crowd tends to take, as if those of us who are sticking to paper are wantonly killing trees with every book with purchase in hard copy. Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room
Despite the wanton destruction of the rainforest, the good news is huge swathes remain untouched. The Sun
But it also saw a continuation of nationalist wars in which hundreds of thousands of people were wantonly massacred in just about every corner of the globe.
He denied ever being told anything about his troops wantonly killing large groups of civilians.
Now the place which Fra Puccio had chosen for his penance adjoined the chamber where the lady lay and was parted therefrom but by a very slight wall, wherefore, Master Monk wantoning it one night overfreely with the lady and she with him, it seemed to Fra Puccio that he felt a shaking of the floor of the house. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
It's all about growth and building something successful - instead of wanton violence and destruction.
the animals were killed wantonly for sport
I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
It's just freaking people out that we're so wantonly wasting water here.
I was twenty, and she a mad, wanton creature, wonderful and unmoral and filled with life to the brim. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Whilst we were sailing, a marmoset chanced upon the book, as it was negligently laid by, which wantonly playing therewith plucked out certain leaves, and tore them in pieces.
This is a wanton waste. Times, Sunday Times
The banking heir's wanton behaviour did not stop there. Times, Sunday Times
She observes the wild romantic antics of the other characters from a distance, recalling the artfulness of past romances, regretting the wantonness of "modern" society. RVABlogs
This was about the wanton destruction and murder of civilians on an industrial scale. Times, Sunday Times
Despite their spartan, isolated lifestyle, there are no stories of women being raped or wanton violence against civilians.
Scandals in high life, starvation in low life; foul floods of nastiness in Law Courts; muddy tricklings of misery in lawless alleys; crimes so terrible and revolting; pains so pitiless and cureless; follies so selfish and wanton, that he let the journal drop, and fell back in his chair, appalled. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892
Of a girl that's both wealthy and wanton benet him, Horace
One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The return of Andy Reid, who delighted the Trent End during dark days under Joe Kinnear, gives McClaren an old-fashioned playmaker with a sublime range of passing but sadly Forest jettisoned the ideal striker to exploit Reid's creative gifts, Norwich's prolific Grant Holt, in a wanton act of miserliness three years ago. Championship: McClaren and Eriksson lead the upwardly mobile set | Rob Bagchi
It isn't the money," he told her, "The main hurt comes from the wanton despoiling of so much beauty. Wolf House Burning: Page III
Despite the wanton destruction of the rainforest, the good news is huge swathes remain untouched. The Sun
It's incomprehensible how much taxpayer money is so easily and wantonly wasted to benefit a select few.
[5143] Another terms it the companion of all filthy delights and enticements, and 'tis not easily told what inconveniences come by it, what scurrile talk, obscene actions, and many times such monstrous gestures, such lascivious motions, such wanton tunes, meretricious kisses, homely embracings. Anatomy of Melancholy
This was about the wanton destruction and murder of civilians on an industrial scale. Times, Sunday Times
The war of classes, which was beginning, sprang not so much from material discomfort of the poor, as from what unsympathetic annalists called their greediness, their pride, and their wantonness. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential. The Sun
It is they who shoved us into wanton consumerism, into a society in which we must maintain a champagne lifestyle on mauby pockets.
I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent.
When in fresh company, I would embark on little wanton problems of conduct, observing the impact of this or that approach on my hearers, treating fellow-men as so many targets for intellectual ingenuity: until I could hardly tell my own self where the leg-pulling began or ended. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The wanton gesticulations of a Virgin in a wild assembly of Gallants, warmed with wine could be no other then riggish, and unmaidenly.
But what of the mothers, women imprisoned and committed to poorhouses, punished for their wanton lusts rather than neglect of children?
It is a staggering noise, a bellow, the sound of wanton consumption. Times, Sunday Times
Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season. Times, Sunday Times
It is a gentle uprising against wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover the misrule and riot that they keep in those houses is very great, for very wantonly they sport and dally together.
He must have been sportive and wanton in his inventions — yet that cruel, that savage sportiveness has saved you from the sudden violence to which he has had recourse in the violation of others, of names and families not contemptible. Clarissa Harlowe
The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame. The Abbot
She wantonly allowed criminal activity to occur at the home, which she owns.
As stated in the supplement, the heritage erosion is due to ignorance, and not wanton destruction.
It was a case of wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
Picasso's masterpiece articulates the horror and outrage felt by all civilized people at the wanton bombing of an open city.
Is not this enough to deserve the awful penalty of hanging, this stranger's wanton insolence, whoe'er he be? The Bacchantes
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential. The Sun
A lot of teams wantonly break the rules.
The breathless void of the sea was wantonly rousted out, as an ill-omened wind hailed from the east.
The wanton destructiveness of modern warfare strengthens this obligation.
As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines,464 The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In the evening a walk was proposed; the path they took led to a rustic arbour, enclosed by bold rocky scenery, whose entrance was almost impeded by the profusion of woodbine which carelessly wantoned around it. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don't forget, that while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" is a war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Bombs Away
This they do in order not to draw down on themselves the hatred of the spirits who live in the trees, and who are apt to avenge themselves by visiting with grievous sickness such as injure them wantonly. Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 1. Tree-spirits
We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
A football match gives no excuse for wanton violence. The Sun
And I bless God (with that singular worthy, Peter Walker the packman at Bristo – Port) ,26 that ordered my lot in my dancing days, so that fear of my head and throat, dread of bloody rope and swift bullet, and trenchant swords and pain of boots and thumkins, cauld and hunger, wetness and weariness, stopped the lightness of my head, and the wantonness of my feet. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
REMEMBERING THE HORROR AND SHAME OF FALLUJAH yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'REMEMBERING THE HORROR AND SHAME OF FALLUJAH'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: There will come a day, in the not too distant future, when George W Bush will stand before an International Tribunal and be forced to face the consequences of not only his illegal war and occupation of Iraq but the brutal and wanton destruction of the city of Mosques ~ Fallujah. REMEMBERING THE HORROR AND SHAME OF FALLUJAH
Musically, he drew wantonly from every conceivable style.
A young man starting out in life has had his business badly damaged by this wanton destruction.
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential. The Sun
The judge said he had never seen a defendant act so "recklessly and wantonly and flagrantly and criminally."
As it stands this shows a wanton disregard of the "sinless" Jesus toward swine, animals that the Old Testament already declared unclean. Debunking Christianity
All this destruction had been wantonly brought about by him.
Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season. Times, Sunday Times
But instead of a steamy sex farce or wanton display of ample island flesh, nothing happens.
Raspberries sucker and spread wantonly, so you only need to buy one plant to get started.
But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word. Strivings of the Negro People
The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
Is this more wanton, say, than to devote weeks to the consideration of the particular way in which your friend Mr. Nash may be most intensely a twaddler and a bore? The Tragic Muse
-- To wanton it here in the moonlight with that damned swashbuckler, that brigand, that kennel-bred beast of a sbirro! Love-at-Arms
The banking heir's wanton behaviour did not stop there. Times, Sunday Times
Rampant spread of those wanton in the night.
wanton one's money away
The riots in August caused more than just anarchy, crime and wanton destruction. Times, Sunday Times
The angler John Wilson recently called the otter "a wanton killer" and some fishing groups have called for a cull. Otters are back – in every county in England
Paul was alternately drawn to and repelled by her whimsicality and wantonness. A Covert Affair

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