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How to use wantonness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wantonness? Here are some examples.

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In Imamura's eyes, all this wicked wantonness is as graphic in its disgust and scandalous at its heart as hardcore images or vulgar stag reels.
Occasionally it has seemed to be sheer wantonness and wickedness that has made them act unrighteously.
She, who had not come to wanton, used a borrowed wantonness as the instrument of her devotion and courage.
Quarrels and family feuds had broken out, freedom had turned into wantonness.
Poets and composers tackle it with sadness and fury, wantonness and sarcasm.
It is essential for you to acknowledge your past wantonness and begin to make the requisite amount of reconciliation.
Were I a bookseller I should feel disposed to show my appreciation of this joyous and rare wantonness by decorating my wares with seasonable fallalery.
Here, once again, the opulence of the city puts its citizens under enormous pressures to capitulate to a life style of wantonness and shameless disregard.
The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
None capture her subversive modernity the way Lepape did: confronting the beholder from under a purple cloche with swollen lips and a sullen gaze that manages to project both wantonness and reserve.
Iraq was currently afflicted by terrorist acts that showed the wantonness of the perpetrators, destroying infrastructure, places of worship and schools.
For an act to be evil, it must be significantly wrong, embarked upon with full knowledge of its wantonness and embraced wholeheartedly by the person doing the deed.
Examples from Classical Literature
But it has an idle abundance and wantonness, a romantic shabbiness and dishevelment.
It was the very wantonness of woe that swept over my heart, whelming it with terrible desolation!
This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.
All the money earned by prisoners was at their own disposal, and was spent almost habitually in drink, chambering, and wantonness.
Gambling houses here are outvying in richness, and utter wantonness of wasted expense, anything yet seen in America.
Half in misgiving, half in wantonness, she turned aside and hid in the ditch.
This was the mere wantonness and surplusage of abundant labour.
Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.
He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power.
On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.
Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own.
He devastates his own kingdom in the wantonness of his force.
I cannot help thinking, men of Athens, that Meletus is reckless and impudent, and that he has written this indictment in a spirit of mere wantonness and youthful bravado.
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