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

When Chernin’s Leo raises his voice in Jewish prayer before he is hanged, the memory of a man whose life was wantonly destroyed is momentarily restored.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

And it would benefit us, too, to stop wantonly crushing cetaceans with our boats.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly?

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson