wantonness

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Wantonness, licentiousness, avarice, and the other vices which stained their conduct, discovered their secret intentions.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

Thus thou art nought without Pride; and little would Pride profit without Wantonness, for bastards are the most numerous and the most fierce of all the subjects of my daughter Pride. 

From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon

Party is generally an Effect of Wantonness, Peace, and Plenty, which beget Humour, Pride, &c. and that is called Zeal and publick Spirit.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

If I had laid out that which I profused in Luxury and Wantonness, in Acts of Generosity or Charity?

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

The Thought, in this Place, is very lively and just, but quite obscur'd by the Redundancy and Wantonness of the Expression.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf