wantonness

noun

Definition of wantonnessnext
1
as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others the barbaric wantonness with which the guards treated the prisoners of war

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2
as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene novels characterized chiefly by their sheer wantonness

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  1. cruelty
  2. brutality
  3. vulgarity
  4. obscenity
  5. ribaldry
  6. impurity
Noun
  • His father, Colin Gray, is facing 29 charges — including two counts of involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder and cruelty to children — related to the shooting at his son’s high school.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Oxford, no longer relevant to the contemporary world in so many ways, was advertising its special connection with the cruelty and suffering that had been rolled out across the entire planet, over centuries, and still rolling away.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Rasoulof’s story is harrowing, and the movie works as an urgent political thriller, a blunt domestic drama and a document of state brutality.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Civil War For a movie about political violence, police brutality, PTSD, and the ethics of journalism, a whole lot of people got a whole lot of mileage out of a single image of Jesse Plemons wearing heart sunglasses.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of brutality
Noun
  • Miss Manners is relieved not to be asked what to do about that vulgarity.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In short, when faced with a genuine choice between civility and decency versus vulgarity and indecency, most Americans who voted in the 2024 elections opted for the latter.
    Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • In short: Your former co-worker needs to cut this [obscenity redacted] out.
    Anna Holmes, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Why do opponents use an obscenity in their signs? Jeanne Woodbury, an activist who works with the lobbying firm Creosote Partners, put up 10 campaign signs around the Phoenix area opposing Proposition 138.
    Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of obscenity
Noun
  • Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.
    Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
Definition of ribaldry
Noun
  • The Peace Out Pore Minimizing Strips take pore strips up a notch with hydrocolloid polymers, retinol, DMAE, and vitamin A to deep-clean, lift out impurities, and visibly shrink the appearance of pores on and around your nose.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The Special Cleansing Gel comes in next, with soap-free chamomile extract to calm and soothe while removing excess oil and impurities.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of impurity
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