wantonness

1 Vandals were guilty of the wanton destruction of the school property.

2 Forgive, then, most Reverend Sir, the Muse hastening into the presence of her Apollo, and exulting in the wantonness of earliest youth.

3 The artist, the intellectual and the Jew are all punished, for wantonness, weakness and naïveté, and pushed into extreme states of moral compromise.

4 Mountains and rivers, seas and islands, rocks, forests, and plains, thrown together in perfect wantonness, and yet in the most perfect harmony, and every feature in the expanded landscape consecrated by the richest associations.

5 Men's lusts, like house-dogs, still the house distress With clamour, barking for mere wantonness; Foxes are they, and sleep the sleep of hares; Crafty as wolves, as tigers pitiless.

6 The ascending smoke and flames of the burning dwellings increased the ferocity of the men, and acts were committed, from mere wantonness, disgraceful both to the soldiers and their commanders.

7 He showed a wanton disregard for his friend's feelings.

8 During the famine, the TFG has shown wanton disregard for the public welfare.

9 Asparagus with anchoïade The nutty, garlicky sauce is the essence of culinary wantonness.

10 At times when the obligato goat's laugh bleated in among the melodious pangs, I caught a glimpse in the background of a crowd of small women-figures who nodded their odious heads with wicked wantonness.

11 Our wantonness with hydrocarbons has become self-destructive and cannot continue, argue many.

12 Perhaps she guessed a little, or it was done out of wantonness, for she laid her white-gloved hand upon his arm and leaned forward a trifle.

13 Schrader delights in mythologizing his own wanton dereliction of self-care.

14 Up in the media centre the heavyweights had every right to shake their heads gravely at the wantonness of the West Indian middle order.

15 Strife and wantonness creep in, and the monks are all but lost, when a peasant who has involuntarily overheard a conclave of devils discussing Ruus, discloses his true nature.

16 Ye are brave Souldiers; keep your wantonness, A winter will come on to shake this wilfulness.

17 Nathan was made feverish by sex, and trembled afterward, praying aloud and blaming me for my wantonness.

18 Cave spent much of the 90s writing stately, pent-up piano ballads about love, largely abandoning the uncouth wantonness that his core audience had treasured since the days of the Birthday Party, Cave's first notable band.

19 I kicked my son because of his wantonness.

因为我儿子的任性，我踢了他。

20 It had just been a piece of imbecile wantonness.

1 放肆

self-abandoned free wild wanton presumptuous madcap tomboyish freely wantonly impudently ungovernably ungovernableness license freedom fling licentiousness self-abandonment presume

2 任性

self-asserting ramstam pervicacious wild selfish quirky heady willful unruly perverse cranky wayward wanton capricious rambunctious self-indulgent incalculable fractious licentious harebrained self-willed self-assertive wilfully wantonly petulantly pettishly waywardly humor quirk selfishness overindulgence self-assertion waywardness wilfulness headiness self-will by fits and starts mad as a hare

3 嬉闹

ring-a-ding frolicly wantonly daftly whoop-up playfulness daftness whoopla daff