wanton

Example Sentences

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Parents and teachers concerned about wanton immigration raids and their effect on kids.

From Los Angeles Times

Gandbhir’s film emphasizes the massive injustice of children being made to experience not just constant harassment by an adult, but wanton prejudice and, eventually, the ramifications of manslaughter.

From Salon

"I am appalled by the RSF's endless and wanton disregard for civilian life," he said.

From BBC

The “government” in Gaza is a theocratic, Iranian-backed terror entity whose founding charter drips with unrepentant Jew-hatred and whose leaders routinely celebrate the wanton slaughter of innocent Israelis as triumphs of “resistance.”

From Los Angeles Times

Vaccine opponents even falsely claim that vaccines contain the cells of aborted fetuses, an explicit reminder of their belief that children are being tainted by the wanton sexualities of modern women.

From Salon