In childhood, many violent criminals wantonly mistreated animals.
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Wantonly
//ˈwɒntənli//
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The hut was wantonly destroyed.
Source: tatoeba (11045062)
The book was an old one—thirty years old, soiled, scribbled wantonly over with a strange name in every variety of enmity to the letterpress, and marked at random with dates twenty years earlier than his own day.
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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 […]
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