(a.) Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are an equal number of arguments against unbridled growth, including the fact that the existence of specialists in most community hospitals with lead to fewer referrals to the teaching centers and the resulting lack of patients will lead training programs to atrophy.
(2) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(3) And in many countries, tenure rights are so nebulous that it is difficult to know who has the rights of access to forests, leaving a vacuum open to unbridled exploitation.
(4) "Individuals who learn how to express their anger while avoiding the explosive and self-destructive consequences of unbridled fury have achieved something incredibly powerful in terms of overall emotional growth and mental health," said Professor George Vaillant, lead author of the study.
(5) Ukip's revolt on the right is recruiting significant support among specific groups, but it is not one of unbridled potential.
(6) There is no denying the radicalism of this message, a frontal and sustained attack on what he calls " unbridled capitalism ", with its " throwaway " attitude to everything from unwanted food to unwanted old people.
(7) Dramatic as Costinha's winner was, it paled next to the unbridled celebrations of his manager.
(8) Even if the US were not rewarded for its global publicly supported scientific contributions and the intellectual property built on them, at least the country would be rewarded for its unbridled consumerism, which provides incentives for such innovation.
(9) the result is destruction of the Amazon tropical forests, deforestation for beef production in Costa Rica to serve the US McDonald's chain, indiscriminate pesticide use, and unbridled consumption of energy and natural resources (the consumption of one northern American equals that of 50 Haitians).
(10) They are worried about unbridled smartphone use and this can keep the integrity of the learning environment,” he says.
(11) Like the American right, Hindu nationalists combine religious conservatism with the unbridled pursuit of success,” said Rajagopal, author of Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India .
(12) There they are, Algerians, living through unbridled joy at doing something that Mr Roy and his boys could not, and all you can say is they are ‘paying scant regard for health and safety’.
(13) Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the "cult of money", calling for ethical reform of the financial system to create a more humane society.
(14) On the other hand, the government has skirted introducing unbridled competition into the health service.
(15) Those "thoughts of an universal peace," did not last as long as the 30 year torrent of blood and fire it took to form them, although until the French revolutionary wars, the squabbles tended more to be conflicts between armies rather than the unbridled savagery of the 30 year war itself.
(16) Life for Casiano and the majority of the city's 780,000 permanent residents has always diverged from the image of unbridled fun the resort seeks to project.
(17) Get it really wrong, like in the repellent Couples Retreat , and the results are downright creepy: only in Los Angeles could guilt-tripping your friends into a new-age therapy marriage-counselling camp seem like a plausible idea for two hours of unbridled escapism.
(18) Media workers say the current unbridled support for the army comes from the need to support the institution at a time when soldiers are dying in a war against Islamist militants.
(19) The highlight is Bobby Robson shaking his head back and forth in utter confusion, like a man contemplating the promise of a night of unbridled lust with Cindy Crawford, as he considers the possibility of winning the World Cup: ‘Well .
(20) It is clear that timidity in the face of an unbridled market will fail."
(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(2) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(3) The real offense, for which no one has been charged, is the wanton disregard for human life that Manning exposed.
(4) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
(5) Long said: "This is not an attack on an individual or on a party, but a wanton attack on the democratic process.
(6) In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction.
(7) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(8) What distinguishes games from books, or films, is that the dodgy sexual politics and wanton violence of one is used as a stick to bash them all.
(9) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.
(10) But that doesn't mean that halting and reversing the wanton growth of shorthaul flights is an act of class war.
(11) Here in Bristol we could use the old railway lines that used to thread their way into the city, before Beeching and Marples ripped them up – another example of wanton government lack of foresight.
(12) To the contrary, they are the inevitable by-products of societies that recruit every institution in service of defending even the most wanton abuses by the state.
(13) Later at university, there were nice Protestant ladies and wanton atheists; taxpayer-funded Guinness and Spear of Destiny .
(14) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(15) Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home.
(16) Young children were expected to carry out gruelling domestic chores and were wantonly punished, she says.
(17) An influential Communist party journal has compared online rumours to Cultural Revolution-style denunciations and warned of the need to curb "wanton defamation" of authority, as China intensifies its campaign to control social media.
(18) What we are seeing in London tonight, the wanton vandalism, smashing of windows, has nothing to do with peaceful protest."
(19) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(20) Following release of the Mosul video showing wanton destruction of antiquities, there has been a lot of email traffic between Libyans working in archaeology and Arab-world representatives on the major international heritage bodies,” said David Mattingly, a professor at the University of Leicester, who has spent years excavating Roman ruins in Libya.