litterer
- noun
- /ˈlɪtərər/
:
maleducado
- As a teacher, she often educates her students about the impact of being a litterer and encourages them to care for their environment.
Examples
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So now we have pictures of known litterers, translate that to criminals.
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I am not a litterer, I-I assure you that.
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She's half Native, half white, a voluminous drinker, an incessant smoker, and a flagrant litterer.
Academic text (2005) -
At the time, the encyclopedia article wasn't very comprehensive, so using Dave Litterer's fantastic American Soccer History Archives as a main source, I compiled lists of the winners of the four majors.
Blog text (33) -
You become an enforcer of the laws of this school, because today's litterer and jaywalker is tomorrow's window breaker and graffiti vandal, and it's our job to stop it.
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The park was filled with litterers after the festival, and the local community organized a cleanup to hold the litterers accountable.
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Many litterers ignore the signs that prohibit throwing trash in public areas, leaving parks and streets dirty.
Synonyms
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4.2
A person or organization that makes air, water and soil dirty
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4.2
A person who drops rubbish on the ground in public places
A person who drops trash in public places
Antonyms
How Careless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Litterer comes from the older noun litter, which originally meant 'bedding' or 'things spread on the ground' and later came to mean 'rubbish left in public'. The ending -er means 'a person who does something', so a litterer is someone who leaves rubbish and makes a place messy.