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English
Etymology
From Middle English wantounly, wantounliche, equivalent to wanton + -ly.
Adverb
wantonly (comparative more wantonly, superlative most wantonly)
- in a wanton manner.
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:Undoubtedly Madam—and it has always been a sentiment of mine—that to propagate a malicious Truth wantonly—is more despicable than to falsify from Revenge […]
1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume I, London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 166:I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
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