wanton
suomi-englanti sanakirjawanton englannista suomeksi
tuhlata
kevytkenkäinen nainen
siveetön, rietas, irstas
mielivaltainen
vietellä
elää kevytkenkäisesti
huikennella
Verbi
wanton englanniksi
Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Edward Gibbon|title=Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|volume=1
(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
{{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
(RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet)
(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.
(hypo)
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 straight / Adonis painted by a running brook, / And Cytherea all in sedges hid, / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath / Even as the waving sedges play wi’ th’ wind.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) Nature here / Wantond as in her prime, and plaid at will / Her Virgin Fancies (..)|year=1873
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)
(quote-book)
(RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse)
To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with ''away'').
(ux)
(RQ:Pepys Diary)
(quote-book) Samson, having wantoned away his strength and paying the penalty (..)
(quote-text)|url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/jademountainchi00heng|page=203|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1972|location=New York|passage=And never would he wanton his cause away with wine.
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.
(RQ:Cibber Love Makes a Man)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) whole herds or flocks of other women securely, and scarce regarded, traverse the park, the play, the opera, and the assembly; and though, for the most part at least, they are at last devoured, yet for a long time do they wanton in liberty, without disturbance or controul.
wonton (gl)
(quote-book) consumed 390 shrimp wantons in eight minutes at the finale of the CP Biggest Eater Competition in Bangkok, Thailand.
(tlb) (alt form)