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wantonness
noun as in abandon
Example Sentences
“They warned me that there’d be a lot of drugs, premarital sex, homosexuality, wantonness and ungodliness,” he says.
Josh Hawley's education at Stanford and Yale doesn't stop him from blatantly misunderstanding Epicurus as an advocate of wantonness and gluttony, which he absolutely is not.
Following some early Christians, Hawley spins Epicurus' philosophy as an appeal to wantonness and gluttony, which it absolutely is not.
Acts of wantonness were not what doomed the shindig, however.
Some men “are above others and rule over them,” including dukes, earls and barons, whom kings invest “with great honour, power and name when they gird them with swords, that is, with sword belts. … Belts gird the loins of such that they may guard themselves from the luxury of wantonness.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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