Thesaurus / wanton
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Men and women could love together seven years, and no wanton lusts were between them, and then was love truth and faithfulness.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE TIME OF SHAKESPEAREJ. J. JUSSERAND
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.
ESSAYSFRANCIS BACON
These forays were in some instances accompanied by wanton excesses and needless bloodshed.
Most persons appear unable to restrain this wanton inclination to take life, when a mustang approaches within rifle-shot.
Those men were done to death by wanton carelessness upon the part of men sent out by the British War Office.
The first, the Castle of delight: Wherin is reported, the wretched end of wanton and dissolute liuing.
The plot worked; Francis was fascinated, falling an easy prey to the wiles of the wanton Anne.
WOMEN OF MODERN FRANCE (ILLUSTRATED)HUGO PAUL THIEME (1870-1940)
This, however, had not been wanton destruction, he was sure.
THE BOY SCOUTS ON THE TRAILGEORGE DURSTON
You cannot have forgot the wanton acts of unparalleled cruelty committed during the reign of Charles II.
They burst open the desks, drawers, and wardrobes, cutting and hacking the furniture with their bolos in wanton mischief.
THE INHABITANTS OF THE PHILIPPINESFREDERIC H. SAWYER
WORDS RELATED TO WANTON
- X-rated
- bawdy
- blue
- coarse
- erotic
- fast
- filthy
- foul-mouthed
- gross
- hard-core
- immodest
- immoral
- improper
- impure
- in bad taste
- incontinent
- indelicate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- loose
- lustful
- naughty
- obscene
- off-color
- pornographic
- profligate
- questionable
- racy
- rakish
- ribald
- risqué
- salacious
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shameless
- smutty
- suggestive
- taboo
- unchaste
- unclean
- unconventional
- unvirtuous
- vile
- wanton
- wicked
- abandoned
- amoral
- animal
- carnal
- corrupt
- debauched
- depraved
- desirous
- disorderly
- dissolute
- fast
- fast and loose
- fleshly
- impure
- in the fast lane
- incontinent
- lascivious
- lax
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- lickerish
- loose
- lubricious
- lustful
- oversexed
- profligate
- promiscuous
- relaxed
- reprobate
- salacious
- satyric
- scabrous
- sensual
- swinging
- unconstrained
- uncontrollable
- uncurbed
- unmoral
- unprincipled
- unruly
- wanton
- abandoned
- capricious
- careless
- corrupt
- debauched
- disreputable
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- fast
- heedless
- high living
- immoral
- imprudent
- inconstant
- lax
- lewd
- libertine
- licentious
- light
- negligent
- out of control
- playing
- profligate
- rash
- reckless
- speeding
- swinging
- thoughtless
- unchaste
- unmindful
- unrestrained
- wanton
- abandoned
- capricious
- careless
- corrupt
- debauched
- disreputable
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- fast
- heedless
- high living
- immoral
- imprudent
- inconstant
- lax
- lewd
- libertine
- licentious
- light
- negligent
- out of control
- playing
- profligate
- rash
- reckless
- speeding
- swinging
- thoughtless
- unchaste
- unmindful
- unrestrained
- wanton
- barbarous
- callous
- compassionless
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- fierce
- gratuitous
- grim
- hard
- hardhearted
- harsh
- hatchet job
- having a killer instinct
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhumane
- iron-fisted
- mean machine
- mortal
- pitiless
- relentless
- ruthless
- severe
- unappeasable
- uncalled-for
- unfeeling
- unflinching
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unpitying
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
- wanton
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