The animals were killed wantonly for sport. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Reuters: Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Couple investigated by Homeland Security because they paid they credit card bill] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed Gaza. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed Gaza] Reference
Believe me, I see this kind of wantonly destructive behavior every day. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse] Reference
He "wantonly" cheated on wife Tea Leoni with floozies on the set of "Californication". From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
You seem to think that I have wantonly disobeyed you. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
The company thereby wantonly caused the death of so many passengers. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But it can assure him of a speedy death if he wantonly violates those laws. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
Such was England's rôle in the preparation of this wantonly prearranged war. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
What true book-lover could find it in his heart wantonly to injure a good book?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The question, how such a writer came wantonly to incur them, he leaves unanswered. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
They do not cast it wantonly into a lake of tears and then swim after it to be cleansed. From Wordnik.com. [Mare] Reference
Such facts, it would seem, might reach the conscience of all who are wantonly destroying. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
He got upon his feet and I saw that he was angry, believing that I had wantonly offended him. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
We are not going to go down this route wantonly whenever we are not happy with a court decision. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong Tightens Up] Reference
No Confederate force would have wantonly butchered unarmed and wounded men, nor would the Yankees. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Senator Vest had been retained as the Attorney of a man whose dog had been wantonly shot by a neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
If he wantonly babble or causelesly open, correct him by biting soundly the Roots of his Ears, or Lashing. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
He still believed that she had wantonly led him on and trampled him beneath her feet in sheer joy of conquest. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
To many, a plaque to unknown soldiers where the word "unknown" has a misprint might seem wantonly disrespectful. From Wordnik.com. [How a clumsy Italian stonemason brought home the sorrows of war] Reference
Next they broke into the commissary, taking a large amount of clothing and provisions and wantonly destroying the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Cruel and oppressive she wantonly abuses the rights of man, and willingly sacrifices her liberty upon the altar of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
It seemed to him, in his honesty, that Reuben was wantonly cutting asunder all the ties that once bound him to the old home. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
This analysis had some merit early on, when the profligate young president wantonly seduced and abandoned his political allies. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference
Bulgaria, therefore, could not more wantonly accuse Servia than by saying that we allied ourselves with the enemies of Slavdom. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
And its banking system and financial markets are poorly developed, inadequately regulated and wantonly manipulated by the elite. From Wordnik.com. [Starting To Feel The Pinch] Reference
But, alas! the Treatise of Human Nature wantonly sapped the foundation of this partition and drowned all in one universal deluge. '. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
There being no law to regulate hunting, sportsmen wantonly kill the wild animals, especially the reindeer and bears, in great numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Pollsters have overused "" focus groups, '' in which civilians are carefully, demographically selected and wantonly encouraged to whine. From Wordnik.com. [Where The Anger Went] Reference
It seems unlikely that the coalition would have sought to inflict wantonly prejudicial spending cuts on the female population of Britain. From Wordnik.com. [This austerity budget acts as a woman-seeking missile] Reference
If not taken up from the root, clean out of the soil, it is altogether valueless, and he who makes the experiment wantonly risks his life. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
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