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  • noun Plural form of wanton.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wanton.

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Examples

  • -- wicked princes, rogue noblemen, titled wantons, daisy and lily innocents, traitorous marriages, murders, a gallows dangling a corpse dotted by a moon, and a woman bowed beneath.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • -- wicked princes, rogue noblemen, titled wantons, daisy and lily innocents, traitorous marriages, murders, a gallows dangling a corpse dotted by a moon, and a woman bowed beneath.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • -- wicked princes, rogue noblemen, titled wantons, daisy and lily innocents, traitorous marriages, murders, a gallows dangling a corpse dotted by a moon, and a woman bowed beneath.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • One anonymous source was quoted as saying, We all experienced a temporary respite from unwanted wantons during this debate, as senators were working hard and perspiring late into the night.

    Dinkar Jain: Cracks on the Debt Ceiling Dinkar Jain 2011

  • Frankfurt calls agents who have no second-order volitions wantons.

    Compatibilism McKenna, Michael 2009

  • At the end of The Widows, the disagreeable first-person-plural narrative voice of Eastwick reappears to remark: "We thanked Heaven to see the unholy wantons flee our abiding seaside hamlet."

    Widcraft Lurie, Alison 2009

  • Then will I speak, and this shall be the prelude of my speech: Ah, mother mine! would thou hadst had a better heart; for though thy beauty and Helen's win you praises well deserved, yet are ye akin in nature, pair of wantons, unworthy of Castor.

    Electra 2008

  • Oui, nous wantons un party tres massive avec les cheezpeeps en croute en disguise.

    i haz fud on mah mind - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Then will I speak, and this shall be the prelude of my speech: Ah, mother mine! would thou hadst had a better heart; for though thy beauty and Helen's win you praises well deserved, yet are ye akin in nature, pair of wantons, unworthy of Castor.

    Electra 2008

  • Critias was attached to Euthydemus,35 aware too that he was endeavouring to deal by him after the manner of those wantons whose love is carnal of the body.

    Memorabilia 2007

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