Wantonness

(n.) The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

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• Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• He was apprehensive that the city was becoming corrupted through the wantonness and lack of principle of the Athenian youth. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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