despoiler

NOUN
  1. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
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How To Use despoiler In A Sentence

  • But the challenge will be to bring the urban voter in particular, along with us, so that they realise that various popular images they might have, be it of the noble farmer or be it of the farmer as an environmental despoiler are wrong.
  • It could have been hard, Varakov decided, for a man like Karamatsov — a despoiler, what the British before World War II in their days of empire would have called a "rotter" — to live with flawless beauty such as Natalia possessed. The Doomsayer
  • Despite the ongoing work of legions grinding out endless new and improved proofs that FDR was a despoiler of democracy and our economic system, it is worth remembering the reason virtually all serious historians rank him among the top three of our greatest presidents. Why Obama Is No Roosevelt
  • Strange friend, thief, despoiler relying on one saving grace, one charity of memory, doled out. The Hidden Jester
  • Dennis, who is a committed environmentalist, says Cheney has gotten a bad rap as a despoiler of the land, since he has often quietly worked behind the scenes, doing things like torpedoing prospective mines in Wyoming that would pollute treasured cutthroat fisheries. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
  • In Patagonia" — Bruce Chatwin's eclectic jamboree of storytelling, anthropology, legend and polemic — is hostile to the those European despoilers so reflexive in their contempt for "savages. Fury and Terror On the High Seas
  • It could have been hard, Varakov decided, for a man like Karamatsov" a despoiler, what the British before World War II in their days of empire would have called a "rotter" " to live with flawless beauty such as Natalia possessed. The Doomsayer
  • This is an assailer, and not debtor, a breaker and destroyer, and no sinner but a despoiler, we see him a judge but no beseecher, he comes for to fight and not to be overcome, a caster out and not here a dweller. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
  • There are no owners for this property but the nation, an indeterminate, invisible personage; no barrier other than so many seals exists between the spoils and the despoilers, that is to say, so many strips of paper held fast by two ill-applied and indistinct stamps. The French Revolution - Volume 3
  • The prelate indicated that even his own guileless grandchildren may become despoilers of the planet unless today's adults act responsibly.
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