Wanton - English meaning

adjective

Having been deserted or left.

Usage examples:

An abandoned car

verb

Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

Usage examples:

Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age

adjective

Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

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An arbitrary decision

adjective

Based on a desire or idea or chance rather than reason

Usage examples:

Her outfit was an arbitrary choice but was just perfect., we didn’t think much about it, just arbit…

adjective

Wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Usage examples:

People who are cruel to animals

verb

Spoil or ruin (an opportunity or a chance of success).

Usage examples:

Ernie nearly cruelled the whole thing by laughing

adjective

Extremely unkind and intentionally causing pain

Usage examples:

Her classmates made some cruel remarks., is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment?, i thin…

adjective

Done consciously and intentionally.

Usage examples:

A deliberate attempt to provoke conflict

verb

Engage in long and careful consideration.

Usage examples:

She deliberated over the menu

adjective

(of an action or a decision) intentional or planned, often with the result of being harmful to someone

Usage examples:

A deliberate insult, he accused her of writing deliberate untruths., [ i ] the jury deliberated for…

prefix

Twice; two-; double.

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Dichromatic

prefix

Variant spelling of dis- shortened before l, m, n, r, s (followed by a consonant), and v ; also often shortened before g, and sometimes before j.

prefix

Variant spelling of dia- shortened before a vowel (as in dielectric ).

adjective

Profoundly immoral and wicked.

Usage examples:

His evil deeds

noun

Profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.

Usage examples:

His struggle against the forces of evil

noun

The condition of being immoral, cruel, or bad, or an act of this type

Usage examples:

[ u ] a contest between good and evil, an evil ruler

abbreviation

Grain(s).

abbreviation

Greece (international vehicle registration).

noun

Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.

adjective

Not based on any good reason.

Usage examples:

Your fears are quite groundless

adjective

Without a reason, cause, or argument

Usage examples:

Your concerns are groundless.

adjective

Lacking humility or decency.

Usage examples:

His immodest personality

adjective

Not conforming to accepted standards of morality.

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Unseemly and immoral behaviour

adjective

Not following accepted standards of morally right behavior or thought

Usage examples:

Discrimination on the basis of race is immoral., the immorality of lying

adjective

Mixed with foreign matter; adulterated.

Usage examples:

An impure form of heroin

adjective

Mixed with other substances and therefore harmful or lower in quality

Usage examples:

Impure drinking water, impurities are removed from the blood by the kidneys.

adjective

Not conforming with generally accepted standards of behaviour, especially in relation to sexual matters.

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Indecent acts

adjective

Morally offensive, esp. in a sexual way

Usage examples:

Indecent language is not allowed on the radio between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., [ u ] the network receive…

adjective

Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.

Usage examples:

He gave her a lascivious wink

adjective

Feeling or expressing strong sexual desire

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Lascivious behavior

adjective

Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

Usage examples:

She ignored his lecherous gaze

adjective

(esp. of men) too interested in sex

noun

A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.

Usage examples:

His image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth

adjective

Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.

Usage examples:

His more libertine impulses

noun

A person, usually a man, who has few moral principles and has sexual relationships with many people

Usage examples:

She considers him an arrogant, dandified libertine., the infamous libertine casanova was more compl…

adjective

Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful.

Usage examples:

Libidinous teenagers

adjective

Having or showing strong sexual desires

adjective

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

Usage examples:

The ruler's tyrannical and licentious behaviour

adjective

(especially of a person or their behaviour) sexual in an uncontrolled and socially unacceptable way

adjective

Offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire.

Usage examples:

He probed the ladies for every lubricious detail of their interactions

adjective

Having or showing too great an interest in sex, especially in an unpleasant way

adjective

Having or showing strong feelings of sexual desire.

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Lustful glances

adjective

Feeling or connected with strong sexual desire

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Lustful thoughts

adjective

Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.

Usage examples:

The glint of dark, malevolent eyes

adjective

Causing or wanting to cause harm or evil

Usage examples:

A malevolent juvenile delinquent

adjective

Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm.

Usage examples:

He was found guilty of malicious damage

adjective

Having the nature of threatening evil

adjective

Intending to cause harm, esp. by hurting someone’s feelings or reputation

Usage examples:

He says she threatened him and spied on him, among other malicious activities.

adjective

Without a motive

Usage examples:

An apparently motiveless murder

adjective

(of something undesirable) not necessary because avoidable.

Usage examples:

I deplore needless waste

adjective

Completely unnecessary

Usage examples:

A needless waste of time, you’re worrying needlessly – they’ll be fine.

adjective

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

Usage examples:

Profligate consumers of energy

noun

A licentious, dissolute person.

Usage examples:

He is a drunkard and a profligate

adjective

Having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships.

Usage examples:

Promiscuous teenagers

adjective

Having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.

Usage examples:

Salacious stories

adjective

Causing or showing too much interest in sexual matters

adjective

(of a person or their conduct) characterized by or showing a lack of shame; barefaced or brazen.

Usage examples:

His shameless hypocrisy

adjective

Showing or caused by malice.

Usage examples:

The teachers made spiteful little jokes about me

adjective

Wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, especially in a small way, because you feel angry towards them

Usage examples:

A spiteful child, that was a spiteful thing to say!

adjective

Not feeling or showing embarrassment or shame.

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A comedy of manners, encased in the most unblushing melodrama

adjective

Relating to or engaging in sexual activity, especially of an illicit or extramarital nature.

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Unchaste desires

adjective

Not able to be shown to be right or reasonable.

Usage examples:

An unjustifiable restriction on their freedom

adjective

Unacceptable and wrong because there is no good or fair reason for it

Usage examples:

His behaviour was unjustifiable., unjustifiable expense

adjective

Not shown to be right or reasonable.

Usage examples:

Unjustified price increases

adjective

Not having interest in or enthusiasm for something, especially work or study.

Usage examples:

Unmotivated, poorly taught children

adjective

Not wanting to do something, or not wanting to do something well

Usage examples:

Unmotivated students

adjective

Not needed.

Usage examples:

Some people feel that holiday insurance is unnecessary

plural noun

Unnecessary things.

Usage examples:

Flora never wasted cash on unnecessaries

adjective

Carried out, occurring, or acting without direct provocation.

Usage examples:

An unprovoked attack on an innocent man

adjective

(esp. of an unpleasant action or remark) not caused by anything and therefore unfair

Usage examples:

Witnesses said the attack was unprovoked.

adjective

Not having or showing high moral standards.

Usage examples:

If our actions are unvirtuous the results will be negative

adjective

Deliberately cruel or violent.

Usage examples:

A vicious assault

adjective

Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

adjective

(of an act) intending to hurt badly, or (of a person or animal) likely to be violent

Usage examples:

I don’t believe he is a vicious dog., the few who disagreed became the targets of vicious written a…

adjective

Evil or morally wrong.

Usage examples:

A wicked and unscrupulous politician

verb

Absorb or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

Usage examples:

Garments that wick moisture away from the skin

adjective

Morally wrong and bad

Usage examples:

He was a wicked, ruthless, and dishonest man., she has a wicked sense of humor., the demands of fun…

adjective

(of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate.

Usage examples:

Wilful acts of damage

adjective

(of something bad) done intentionally or (of a person) determined to do exactly as you want, even if you know it is wrong

Usage examples:

The present crisis is the result of years of wilful neglect by the council., they eat huge quantiti…