vandal
- noun
- /ˈvændəl/
- A tomb is sacred, not to be looted by rogues and vandals.
- graffiti vandals
Civil disobedience is incredibly You screw it up and you're just a vandal.
- Civil disobedience is incredibly You screw it up and you're just a vandal.
- I, I had the idea of chiseling little arrows pointing north in the, in the are there any vandals among us?
Examples
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The museum installed security cameras to prevent vandal behavior that could harm the exhibits.
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At 4:28 p.m., Sebastopol Library reported that vandals had tagged a wall and broken the sculpture outside.
Blog text (17) -
If we find such a person among the four suspects, we have our vandal.
Fiction book (1994) -
Too many vandals around here.
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I've told you before there are vandals in this town.
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Vandals severed the bell-tower rope.
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In April 2001, vandals knocked over sixty stones in a nighttime attack on Mnajdra temple.
Academic text (2004) -
Neglect will "send a message to vandals that business owners are not attentive or do not care" (GH 2003b).
Academic text (2011) -
The city council is worried about the increase in vandal acts that have damaged several parks.
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After the vandal spray-painted graffiti on the school walls, the community organized a cleanup event.
Synonyms
A person who damages public walls and buildings by writing or painting on them
Antonyms
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vandal comes from the name of a people, the Vandals, who long ago attacked cities and broke many buildings. So today a vandal means a person who on purpose damages or destroys other people's property.