wantonness

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The most unhappy of all Men, and the most exposed to the Malignity or Wantonness of the common Voice, is the Trader.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Wantonness among his own kin he recompensed relentlessly, but the offences of others he treated with humaneness.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

Wantonness, innocent because unconscious of sin, immoral because incapable of any serious purpose, is the quality which prevails in all that he has painted.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Party is generally an Effect of Wantonness, Peace, and Plenty, which beget Humour, Pride, &c. and that is called Zeal and publick Spirit.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

Without Innocence, Beauty is unlovely, and Quality contemptible, Good-breeding degenerates into Wantonness, and Wit into Impudence.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph