1774 Middlesex Jrnl. 2 Apr. It is hoped that Parliament will..make them a public example, to deter future Governors from wantingly sporting with their authority.

1864 Sentinel (Rochester, Indiana) 16 Jan. That provision of the Constitution..which says no money shall be taken from the treasury except by appropriation made by law, is wantingly violated.

1901 Waterloo (Iowa) Times-Tribune 10 Dec. Too soon, by far, for the many beings who, through ignorance or stupidity, are wantingly shortening their lives.

2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 20 Mar. 16 These Iraqis..were starving wretches... To just kill them wantingly would have been an absolute crime.

1893 ‘Eha’ in Times of India 10 June 4/7 Gaunt frames of..cows and calves, with..lustrous eyes staring wantingly.

1919 Daily Observer (Tamworth, New S. Wales) 15 Aug. 1/1 Visitors from the Inverell district look askingly and wantingly at some of the paddocks on Binneguy.

1999 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 25 July a6/4 Soon we are staring wantingly toward the sky with eyes secretly pleading for more.