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"Wanton" Definition

noun

One that is playful or frolicsome.
One that is undisciplined or spoiled.
One who is immoral, lewd, or licentious.
One given to self-indulgent or trifling.
A lewd or person.

verb-intransitive

To act, grow, or move in a wanton manner; be wanton.

verb-transitive

To waste or squander extravagantly.

verb

To be wanton or act.
To pass or waste wantonly or in.

adjective

Frolicsome; playful.
Gratuitously cruel; merciless.
Immoral or unchaste; lewd.
Luxuriant; overabundant: wanton tresses.
Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust: wanton destruction.

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