wanton:

Immoral; unchaste; licentious ; lewd ; sexually promiscuous .

2. Concise Oxford Cpomendium : ' Literary: an immoral or licentious person, esp. a woman .'

Rosalie Maggio. Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ' This tends to be reserved for women, holding them to a higher arbitrary moral standard than men. If you must use it , do so gender-fairly to describe behavior but not people ("they behaved wantonly," but not "they were wanton") .

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