wantonly
Example Sentences
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"He chose to take whatever information he had and attempted to sell it to a foreign intelligence service thereby, wantonly, putting myself, my family and ultimately the country at risk."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
Anthropic’s worries over Claude’s alleged ability to feel distress aren’t really about Claude; they’re about our all-too-human unease over the possibility that we’re wantonly using something that doesn’t want to be used.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Both teams seemed perturbed at the way that the officials so wantonly threw flags on defensive backs.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Attorney Harry Litman added that Costello is "wantonly betraying attorney-client information and privilege."
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2023
The law says the penalty is harsher if someone should have known of the risks and harsher still—manslaughter—if the person does know the risks and wantonly disregards them.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
