having no just foundation or provocation; malicious
wanton interference in their affairs
gratuitously brutal or violent
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport — Shakespeare
sexually unbridled; promiscuous
uncontrolled or unbridled
wanton inflation
literary luxuriant or lavish
archaic hard to control; undisciplined or unruly
wantonly adv
wantonness noun
[Middle English, from wan- mis-, badly + Old English togen, past part. of teōn to draw, train, discipline]