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Wantonly   /wˈɔntənli/  /wˈɑntənli/   Listen
adverb
Wantonly  adv.  
1.
In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
2.
Unintentionally; accidentally. (Obs.)





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... specialists nurtured on foreign and uninspiring theories of instruction. A ballot against Miss Luella Bailey, the competent and cultivated lady whose name adds strength and distinction to our ticket, and who has been needlessly and wantonly opposed by those who should be her proud friends, will signify a willingness to renounce one of our most precious liberties—the free man's right to choose those who are to impart to his children mastery of knowledge and love of country. I take my stand ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... wretch who wantonly handcuffed the apprentice, who went on to his estate by the direction ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... murderer's wife and children, I should be not only committing a public wrong, but I should be doing what I could to lessen the safety and security of one whole class of my servants—men who give me honourable service—and two of whom have been so cruelly, so wantonly hurried before their Maker!" ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... which time the mountain seemed almost to reach the sky; but suddenly its growth ceased, and none knew the cause. From Chunnaai came Whirlwind to tell the inhabitants how two of their maidens had entered the sacred space on the mountain top and had wantonly broken and destroyed plants and fruits, thus causing the mountain ...
— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis
... were insignificant in comparison with his virtues, and the most conspicuous of them, his tendency to revenge himself for real or fancied injuries, is but a part of the natural instinct in us to return the blows we receive in self-defence. Wantonly, and of his own accord, he never injured human being. His domestic life was as pure and innocent as that which appeared before the world; and Mrs. Hawthorne once said of him in my presence that she did not believe he ever committed an act that could properly be considered wrong. It was like his ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns


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