wantonness

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wantonness
Noun
  • There’s a great line: Honesty without compassion equals cruelty.
    Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In each of these films, cruelty commingles with tenderness, and hideous acts take place against backdrops of often stunning natural beauty.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Remick is the defendant in two active police brutality lawsuits.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Mahdi constantly used brutality to solve his problems.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lashing out from the White House, Mr. Trump used a vulgarity to accuse Mr. Xi and Mr. Lam of plotting to exploit the United States.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Those incidents range from keying swastikas to spray-painting other vulgarities.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And while producers could appeal the board’s obscenity rulings, most did not.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Skinner’s name was becoming a kind of obscenity in certain pockets of the terraces.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.
    Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • The agency also closely oversees the production of synthetic food dyes, checking for impurities that might result in a safety risk.
    Paula Cohen, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Thanks to impurities lodged within minerals, the rocks start to glow in vivid shades of pink, blue, yellow and green.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Wantonness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wantonness. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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