Wantonness
['wɑntənnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.
Edited by Gillian
Examples
- Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance? Plato. The Republic.
- The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He was apprehensive that the city was becoming corrupted through the wantonness and lack of principle of the Athenian youth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him. Jane Austen. Emma.
Edited by Kitty