Usually means: Recklessly, without regard for consequences.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word wantonly:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. wantonly: Merriam-Webster
  2. wantonly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wantonly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wantonly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Wantonly, wantonly: Wordnik
  6. wantonly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wantonly: Wiktionary
  8. wantonly: Dictionary.com
  9. Wantonly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Wantonly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. wantonly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. wantonly: Rhymezone
  13. Wantonly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. wantonly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. wantonly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. wantonly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. wantonly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wantonly: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. wantonly: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wantonly: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wantonly)

▸ adverb:  in a wanton manner.

Similar:
licentiously, promiscuously, unwilfully, lawlessly, wantedly, wildishly, witlessly, undeliberately, unrestrainedly, wildly, more...

Opposite:
chaste, virtuous, pure

Types:
recklessly, heedlessly, reckonlessly, more...

Phrases:
watch wantonly, wantonly staring, opposite of wantonly, more...

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Similar:
licentiously, promiscuously, unwilfully, lawlessly, wantedly, wildishly, witlessly, undeliberately, unrestrainedly, wildly, more...

Opposite:
chaste, virtuous, pure

Types:
recklessly, heedlessly, reckonlessly, more...

Phrases:
watch wantonly, wantonly staring, opposite of wantonly, more...



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