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"Wanton" includes "reckless," but may connote willfulness, or a disregard of probable consequences, and thus describe a more aggravated offense.
Executive Order 13140 On The Manual For Courts Martial Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1999
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"Wanton" includes "reckless," but may connote willfulness, or a disregard of probable consequences, and thus describe a more aggravated offense.
Executive Order On The Manual For Courts Martial Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1999
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"Wanton" includes "reckless", but in describing the operation or physical control of a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft, "wanton" may, in a proper case, connote willfulness, or a disregard of probable consequences, and thus describe a more aggravated offense.
Executive Order 12960 On Amending Manual For Courts Martial Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1998
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"Wanton" includes "reckless", but in describing the operation or physical control of a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft, "wanton" may, in a proper case, connote willfulness, or a disregard of probable consequences, and thus describe a more aggravated offense.
Executive Order Amending Manual For Courts Martial Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1995
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"Wanton" is a noun as well as an adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an epithet applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place after it a _comma_, when the passage will read thus: --
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"Wanton," on the other hand, means "acting intentionally in heedless disregard of the consequences and under such surrounding circumstances and conditions that a reasonable person would know or have reason to know that such conduct would, in a high degree of probability, harm a person or property."
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Made my link, but still looking on Mt Git'r'Read, or better yet, the Wanton Book List to see what fits ....
Southern Reading Challenge Three! ____Maggie 2009
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Wanton acts of terror, to the point of shocking deliberate murders that seem inexplicable to normal thinking.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Cool Dr. Leo Rangell 2011
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Wanton acts of terror, to the point of shocking deliberate murders that seem inexplicable to normal thinking.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Cool Dr. Leo Rangell 2011
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Wanton as was the display, not even in private did he and Mary so behave.
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