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wanton

/ˈwɑntən/ verbo C2

En español: retozar, malgastar, ser lascivo

  1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. (intransitive)
  2. To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away). (transitive) · The young man wantoned away his inheritance.
  3. To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious. (intransitive)

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Petty thefts, wanton assaults, purposeless outrage—to the man who held the clue all could be worked into one connected whole.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 33 · C1
This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a by-word through the West.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 11 · C1
I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 67 · C1

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