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What does wantonness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
  2. (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
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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.
It is essential for you to acknowledge your past wantonness and begin to make the requisite amount of reconciliation.
Poets and composers tackle it with sadness and fury, wantonness and sarcasm.
She, who had not come to wanton, used a borrowed wantonness as the instrument of her devotion and courage.
But it has an idle abundance and wantonness, a romantic shabbiness and dishevelment.
Half in misgiving, half in wantonness, she turned aside and hid in the ditch.

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