The being whose wanton hand had stricken down the officer was a totally worthless character; shiftless, depraved, wicked.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
It was a new kind of pleasure for us to own such a wanton luxury as that.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
But, after all, it is no joke, and I should hate to get into the middle of an enemy patrol somewhere in this country of burnt and abandoned villages, through which I have been wandering with tired eyes in the sight of all this destruction, so wanton, so brutal, and so ruthless.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs