wantonly
肆意地,恣意地,肆意,肆意妄为
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Definitions
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- : done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- : deliberate and without motive or provocation; uncalled-for; headstrong; willful: Why jeopardize your career in such a wanton way?
- : without regard for what is right, just, humane, etc.; careless; reckless: a wanton attacker of religious convictions.
- : sexually lawless or unrestrained; loose; lascivious; lewd: wanton behavior.
- : extravagantly or excessively luxurious, as a person, manner of living, or style.
- : luxuriant, as vegetation.
- : Archaic. sportive or frolicsome, as children or young animals.having free play: wanton breezes; a wanton brook.
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- : a wanton or lascivious person, especially a woman.
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Examples
If Brett Hankison’s behavior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments, then it should have been wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor’s apartment too.
Now his people were wantonly punished for resisting the expulsion; for seeking to reverse it.
It was not to be a love-letter; simply an appeal for forgiveness to a friend whom she had wantonly injured.
I see cavaliers, sworn defenders of Holy Church; your hands are red with Christian blood wantonly shed.
First silence your own dark soul—silence reproach for blood spilled wantonly, for tears your deeds have made to flow.
The "shedu" was a destructive bull which might slay man wantonly or as a protector of temples.
I once asked an old Omaha what was the feeling of Indians when they saw the white men wantonly killing buffaloes.