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Synonyms:
- dissolute, debauched, impure, Unbridled, obscene, inconsiderate, uncurbed, heedless, profligate, lascivious, reckless, immodest, concupiscent, depraved, wasteful, licentious, capricious, desperate, incontinent, wayward, playful, voluptuous, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, indecent, light, dissipated, volatile, prurient, giddy, needless, thoughtless, frivolous, sportive, loose
Examples:
- - He has never spared me, egad, and has often distressed me very seriously by his malevolent and utterly wanton opposition where he had absolutely no chance whatever, and knew it, nor any object, I give you my honour, except to waste my money, when, owing to the absurd and cruel position I was placed in, he knew very well I could not have a great deal to throw away. - "The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- - One of the worst of these was, the wanton and indiscriminate seizure of papers, even in cases where the safety of the state was not pretended in justification of so harsh a proceeding. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)", Edmund Burke
- - It is malicious and wanton brutality, and I fancy I can lay my hands on the fellow who was at the bottom of it. - "Frank Merriwell's Chums", Burt L. Standish
Antonyms:
- compassionate, moral, proper, celibate, inoffensive, undersexed, prim, kind, frigid, peaceable, puritanical, straitlaced, priggish, innocent, monastic, humane, chaste, respectable, pacific, monkish, seemly, benign, kindhearted, maidenly, innocuous, endorsed, polite, G-rated, acceptable, immaculate, charitable, modest, clement, decent, virtuous, genteel, good-hearted, suitable, desirable, merciful, appropriate, meet, approved, perfect, decorous, wholesome, fit, benignant, Victorian, welcome, nice, pure, warm, pitying, lenient, becoming, agreeable, pleasant, prudish, motivated, lily-white, correct, tender, sanctioned, clean, spotless, sympathetic, staid, warmhearted, tenderhearted, pleasing, peaceful, virginal
