1. wanton - Noun
2. wanton - Adjective
3. wanton - Verb
4. wanton - Adjective Satellite
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism." Noam Chomsky
Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby. George Gascoigne
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings. John Keats
A wanton eye is the messenger of a lusting heart. Afghan Proverb
Wanton kittens make sober cats. Danish Proverb