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wantons

noun

plural of wanton

as in flirts

a person who playfully shows another amorous attention quite the wanton when he wants to be

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flirts

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The hole’s narrow fairway flirts with disaster on both sides – water and super high rough.

— Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026
One flirts and drinks and dallies and dances; the other is part child, part monk, his mantel packed with icons and crucifixes, his inner landscape a kind of mental Sagrada Família — a weird and extraordinary edifice constructed around the rigors and promises of Christianity.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026

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