wanton
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Today, Taiwan's streets are full of signs selling "Sichuan beef noodles" and "Wenzhou wantons".
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024
The B-movie Bette Davis, Ida Lupino could play waifs or wantons, but she always gave her characters the wit and glamour required to wrestle with their fates.
From Time Magazine Archive
What, then, is he who wantons in the death of those who advantage him not?
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)
The bamboo is used in Antigua for spouts, fish-pots, or as posts for fences: it forms a pretty screen, and as the wind wantons through its lanceolated leaves, a pleasing melody ensues.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
See him during summer as he wantons in the stream like a dace.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
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