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US
/ˈwɑntənɫi, ˈwɔntənɫi/
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[ UK /wˈɒntənli/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒntənli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a licentious and promiscuous manner
this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously -
in a wanton manner
the animals were killed wantonly for sport
How To Use wantonly In A Sentence
- There are people who feel that gamers are wantonly throwing their lives away, spending so much times playing games.
- The mutual moralizing shock that, at one time, each had wandered wantonly down the path of premarital partying without inviting the other, nixes the upcoming nuptials.
- So, I walked into the shop carrying my hypoallergenic Egyptian cotton washbag with super micro-hepa filtration, and there was Edward Denture, wantonly using the machines I had cordoned off with caution tape. Anhedonia (excerpt)
- Bart, I think even you can agree that the "right" way to resolve these disagreements doesn't involve a midnight call on a deathly sick man to get his signature on a piece of paper that can then be used to lie to the telecoms that the president is complying with the law in wantonly wiretapping everything in sight? would that be a fair statement? and please elaborate on how suspecting the Acting Attorney General of flat out lying about a conversation he had with Ashcroft is consistent with Bush's notion of bringing honor and integrity back to the WH. Balkinization
- Their real-life counterparts the huia, the bush wren, the grayling - the list goes on - were driven out of their natural habitats, exposed to predators or hunted to extinction, often wantonly.
- No! and to every other commentator who has wantonly tampered with the text, or obscured it with his inky cloud of paraphrase, we feel inclined to apply the quadrisyllable name of the brother of Agis, king of Sparta. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
- Again, in an exercise hall where supervision was inadequate, the senior pupils would wantonly throw down the juniors or pick quarrels, so that jujitsu was despised as something that made rowdies of young men.
- A gadget in the exhibition hall enables the visitor to re-design his / her face with their fingertips: twisting the face, enlarging the eyes or mouth, anyone can play this game wantonly as the artist himself advocated.
- You know how wild the country is there, and how wantonly the brook runs, bending, and winding, and coquetting with the wintergreen and cranberry vines that fringe its banks.
- How wantonly the kids skip, and I lie still upon the ground!