Word: wantonness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France, on the other hand, desires the economic prostration of her late foe. She fears the military and economic potentiality of a prosperous Germany and is bound not to see it recover more quickly than she herself is able to do. She has a huge bill for wanton destruction, for insult and outrage, that she wants to have settled to the last centime. It matters not whether Germany can pay. If not, so much the worse for Germany. Consequently France has heretofore refused to give up one iota of her demands...
...reported to have cried, "and the German assassins hired by a British King. They were the first Sinn Feiners; this hall is the hall of Sinn Fein; this country is the first Sinn Fein country, and the Stars and Stripes is the first Sinn Fein flag." Responding to this wanton perversion of historical fact a mob that packed Faneuil Hall to the doors alternately wept, cheered and pounded its approval...
...wayward woman's wanton...
...young Princess, but she was vigorous and well-preserved. She could not understand the cowardice of her champions. They might have faltered, she reflected, had she ever allowed a thought to furrow her bleak brow. But she was sure she had never done that. Had she been a wanton, she thought, her plight might be explainable. But had she not, year after year, proclaimed to the world her immaculate chastity...