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Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Edward Gibbon|title=Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|volume=1
Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
(RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd)
{{quote-text|en|year=1946|author=Bertrand Russell|title=History of Western Philosophy|section=I.21
Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
(RQ:Austen Sense and Sensibility)
{{quote-journal|en|author=Ben White|journal=The Guardian|date=10 Aug 2009
Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Adam Smith|title=The Wealth of Nations|section=Book I
{{quote-journal|en|author=John Ruskin|journal=Letters|date=19 Jan 1876
A pampered or coddled person.
(RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet)
An overly playful person; a trifler.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
{{quote-text|en|year=1611|author=Ben Jonson|title=Oberon, the Faery Prince
{{quote-text|en|year=1898|title=Charles Dickens: A Critical Study|author=George Gissing
A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
{{quote-text|en|year=1891|title=Jerusalem: Its History and Hope|author=Mrs. Oliphant
{{quote-text|en|year=1936|title=Like the Phoenix|author=Anthony Bertram
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew) We will fetch thee straightAdonis painted by a running brook,And Cytherea all in sedges hid,Which seem to move and wanton with her breathEven as the waving sedges play wi’ th’ wind.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) Nature hereWantond as in her prime, and plaid at willHer Virgin Fancies (..)
{{quote-book|en|year=c. 1820|author=Charles Lamb|chapter=Christ’s Hospital, Five and Thirty Years Ago|title=Essays of Elia|location=Paris|publisher=Baudry’s European Library|year_published=1835|page=15|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011548518
(quote-book)
{{quote-text|en|year=1927|author=Virginia Woolf|title=To the Lighthouse|location=London|publisher=Hogarth Press|year_published=1930|section=Part 2, 9, p. 217|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176580
To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with ''away'').

''The young man wantoned away his inheritance.''

1660, (w), diary entry for 28(nbs)April, 1660, in Henry B. Wheatley (ed.), ''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'', London: George Bell, 1905, Volume 8, p.290,https://archive.org/details/diaryofsamuelpe08pepy

(..) with this money the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures (..)

{{quote-book|en|year=1881|author=Christina Rossetti|title=Called to Be Saints|location=London|publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge|chapter=St. Matthias, Apostle|page=153|url=https://archive.org/details/CalledToBeSaintsTheMinorFestivals
(quote-text)|url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/jademountainchi00heng|page=203|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1972|location=New York
1948, (w) (as Robert Standish), ''Elephant Walk'', New York: Macmillan, 1949, Chapter 15, p.(nbs)214,https://openlibrary.org/ia/elephantwalknove00stan

If either of us felt the respect for George that you imply by your manner, you know perfectly well that we wouldn’t have wantoned away the day as we have.

To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
{{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=62|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001
{{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
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