wantonly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wantounly, wantounliche, equivalent to wanton + -ly.
Adverb edit
wantonly (comparative more wantonly, superlative most wantonly)
- in a wanton manner.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
- 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 […]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 8, in Frankenstein[1], archived from the original on 3 April 2012:
- I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.