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1 disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
  • the barbaric wantonness with which the guards treated the prisoners of war

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2 the quality or state of being obscene
  • novels characterized chiefly by their sheer wantonness

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“Wantonness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wantonness. Accessed 19 Oct. 2021.

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