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wawn tuhn lee

  • r  in a wanton manner
    the animals were killed wantonly for sport
  • r  in a licentious and promiscuous manner

  • To bathers driven from the surf by the floating filth, it was as if something precious -- their beach, their ocean -- had been wantonly destroyed, like a mindless graffito defacing .
  • His "Freedom Agenda," which wantonly promoted democracy, led to disasters like the rise of Hamas in Gaza (after Bush forced elections that neither Israel nor the Palestinian .
  • He has advisers like Zbigniew Brzezinski who have been "anti-Israel" in the past; the wantonly accommodating spirit of Jimmy Carter looms heavy over Obama's candidacy.
Quotes

  • Clarence Thomas in CNN
    But Thomas told CBS, "If someone just wantonly tries to destroy you -- if somebody comes in and drags you out of your house and beats the hell out of you -- what is it?"
  • Justice Potter Stewart in River Cities Reader
    Justice Potter Stewart wrote that the "Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments cannot tolerate the infliction of a sentence of death under legal systems that permit this unique penalty to be so wantonly and so freakishly imposed."

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