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    1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    2. Her outrage at this wanton vandalism turned to


    3. He mustered the ‘moral’ minority to form an action group claiming that the presence of, and I quote, ‘all those wanton women’ would have a detrimental effect on the neighbourhood and all the families living round there


    4. My blood simmered at the contact, forcing my body to be instinctively wanton


    5. UBO: Does it say in the bible that the Messiah and his followers promoted promiscuity and wanton behaviour?


    6. They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through, the interested complaints of faction and sedition; and they are, upon that account, less apt to be misled into any wanton or unnecessary opposition to the measures of government


    7. It was the fire that bothered him most, the wanton destruction


    8. I shut the door, dried off, and went to read my book again, wishing she’d snuck in when the door was open all those times and that someone would announce out of the blue, “I found her!” But no, the cat was lost, outside in the cold rain, a victim of the dark and her own wanton wanderings


    9. Such devastation, wanton massacre, sick genocide


    10. their shelves, in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and

    11. Although causal factors may properly explain the reasons or motives behind some wanton or criminal action, they do not exonerate the consequences of that action, however


    12. ) Does the wanton killing of an animal for its own sake, however, rise to the level of killing another human being? Killing a defenseless creature for sheer enjoyment proceeds from thoughtless stupidity or a certain (inherent) wickedness, perhaps


    13. What about other atrocities? Surely in its claim of Georgians being so outraged by the dreaded “Yankees,” the Confederate apologists can point to deaths, rapes, wanton violence? No, they cannot


    14. Speaking of parents … Is your mom coming up here today?” I jokingly asked with a wanton grin


    15. Then her mouth took him in, sucking, licking, torturing him with wanton sexuality


    16. There was nothing like a wanton woman in Itsati, so when I first saw one at the Snake Ordu, I found her repulsive and so have I found all such ever since


    17. because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and


    18. as “a shameless, or wanton woman” but in the original word meant to tread out, or to thresh


    19. Begs the wanton rose


    20. his other children engaging in wanton sex

    21. She is very wanton


    22. His ministrations were getting to be too much for me to bear, and my wanton groans and moans became louder, echoing in the confines of the shower enclosure


    23. With a quickness her tender limbs could not approximate, he caught her wrist, twisting it in pure wanton cruelty until she screamed and sank to her knees


    24. 8 Jesus blessed the poor because they were usually sincere and pious; he condemned the rich because they were usually wanton and irreligious


    25. Donna had heard rumours of Sam’s wanton ways, and she’d seen some evidence that suggest they might be true, but she’d also seen something that wasn’t supposed to be there – devotion


    26. Ricky was quite fond of you back then, and I guess, despite his somewhat wanton ways, he… still feels the same


    27. To protect the people from the wanton destruction of our government, we need a recall process from the people that can be implemented quickly to recall any elected official who reneges on his commitment on issues


    28. I feel the need for more precise concentration upon strategic objectives such as oil and communications rather than mere acts of terror and wanton destruction”


    29. It was almost as if this mastermind of evil and corruption were taunting him, playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with wanton respect for anyone’s life


    30. They exacted a fearful toll of rape, arson, pillage, and wanton murder

    31. And his reward for wanton slaughter was grassland enough for more horses than he could ever ride, and more slave girls than he could ever bed


    32. He felt the need for a little wanton destruction


    33. Then, won’t it be a case of quick fixing them in wanton liaisons?’


    34. of Sera there was the same useless wanton devastation


    35. She was typically a wanton woman


    36. The wanton destruction of pure, innocent life or blameless beauty of one’s own creation are considered criminal acts or the work of a deranged mind, aren’t they? Even in the Bibles, Korans, Torahs and such of the faithful


    37. Man himself must be held responsible for the wanton destruction of his world


    38. Hills that roll green all the way to the horizon in any direction I turn are silhouetted against what’s left of the sun’s shameless display of wanton passion


    39. From here, it becomes clear that the lecherous wanton cannot see the facts of the Godly orders and the blessing hidden under them, as he cannot see the realities of the forbidden things and the harm and evils caused by them


    40. From here, it becomes clear that the lecherous wanton cannot see the truth of the Godly Orders and the blessings that are hidden under them, just as they cannot see the realities of the forbidden things and the harm and evil which they cause

    41. She flew a circling pattern high above the carnage, her structured thought dissolving into a haze of wanton, unremitting desire


    42. She peered around a corner as Moraine advanced upon the cook, flouncing in a manner wanton even by her standards, those being what they were


    43. Wild and wanton wilful ways,


    44. Will blame bold Cupid with his wanton bow


    45. It seemed so strange for anyone to die in June; so strange to be lifeless in the midst of the wanton profusion of life, to grow cold in that quivering radiance of heat


    46. How could she? Was the day of Tussie's coming of age, that dreadful day when he was nearest death, a day a mother could ever forget? It had all been most wanton, most cruel


    47. wanton angel of those unnecessary items and revealing


    48. When the promise of money was made in return for wanton acts of destruction against the person and property of abolitionists the Olsens and the Michauds had been quick to offer their services


    49. A young and innocent youth has had his heart blown out of his body in a wanton act of murder! As his grieving father rushed to comfort his dying child the


    50. By a wanton shameless woman; tempting a man lusting to grasp her flesh












































    1. Here I laved and wantoned with the water, or sportively played with


    2. Then, springing eagerly towards me, he covered all those naked parts with a fond profusion of kisses; and now, taking hold of the rod, rather wantoned with me, in gentle inflictions on those tender trembling masses of my flesh behind, than in any way hurt them, till by degrees, he began to tingle them with smarter lashes, so as to provoke a red colour into them, which I knew, as well by the flagrant glow I felt there, as by his telling me, they now emulated the native roses of my other cheeks


    3. by the writhing, twisting and soft murmured complaints of the young sufferer; but at length, the first straits of entrance being pretty well go through, every thing seemed to move and go pretty currently on, as on a carpet road, without much rub or resistance; and now, passing one hand round his minions' hips, he got hold of his red-topped ivory toy, that stood perfectly stiff, and shewed, that if he was like his mother behind, he was like his father before; this he diverted himself with, whilst, with the other he wantoned with his hair, and leaning forward over his back, drew his face, from which the boy shook the loose curls that fell over it, in the posture he stood him in, and brought him towards his, so as to receive a long breathed kiss; after which, renewing his driving, and thus continuing to harass his rear, the height of the fist came on with its usual symptoms, and dismissed the action


    4. Here I laved and wantoned with the water, or sportively played with my companion, leaving Emily to deal with hers at discretion


    5. They had wantoned in the plenitude of their power


    1. It had a way of coming in irrepressibly and wantoning among his papers, or throwing a handful of lilac blossoms into his rye samples, or sending an officious bee to lumber round him


    2. above the surface, in the course of his swimming or wantoning with the


    3. The frolic and various play of all his fine polished limbs, as they appeared above the surface, in the course of his swimming or wantoning with the water, amused and insensibly delighted me; sometimes he lay motionless, on his back, waterborne, and dragging after him a fine head of hair, that, floating, swept the stream in a bush of black curls


    1. intoxicated that his favourites were wantons of the lowest class, who could by


    2. Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons


    3. Alas, Belinda, most Men can only see us either as the Embodiment of Virtue or the Embodiment of Vice; either as Bluestockings or unlearnt Painted Whores; either as Trollops or as Spinsters; as Wives or Wantons; as Good Widows or Bad Witches


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    Synonyms for "wanton"

    wanton luxuriate trifle away wanton away piddle piddle away trifle easy light loose promiscuous sluttish motiveless unprovoked deliberate uncalled-for heedless reckless unjustifiable groundless inconsiderate wilful unruly lascivious lecherous licentious prurient salacious libidinous lustful extravagant frivolous capricious luxurious elegant magnificent waste

    "wanton" definitions

    lewd or lascivious woman


    waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently


    indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life


    spend wastefully


    become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously


    engage in amorous play


    behave extremely cruelly and brutally


    occurring without motivation or provocation


    casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior