- 1[usually before noun] causing harm or damage deliberately and for no acceptable reason wanton destruction a wanton disregard for human life the wanton killing of innocent creatures
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- 2(old-fashioned) (disapproving) (usually of a woman) behaving in a very immoral way; having many sexual partners
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noun [uncountable]See wanton in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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