Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who despoils or strips by force; a plunderer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who despoils.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
despoils ; one who strips by force; aplunderer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
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Examples
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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 Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010
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Theodore Roosevelt, said Brinkley, who is author of a volume on TR the environmentalist, "would have gone after BP as a 'despoiler of the gulf.'"
Black Water Rising 2010
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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 MATT LABASH 2010
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Raise the glass and toast the age of the despoiler.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.
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Britney Spears is being forced to give custody of her children to man-whore/baby-mama maker/Britney despoiler/my idol Kevin Federline.
Archive 2007-10-01 xtra 2007
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The official acronym for the NATO commander is an obscure French word for ‘despoiler’.
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Strange friend, thief, despoiler relying on one saving grace, one charity of memory, doled out.
The Hidden Jester Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2009
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Back in the day, it was all about Paris Hilton and her love tryst with the “Runaway Bride” and Lacey Peterson; and the way Michael Jackson and JonBenet, and whatever and ever amen, meanwhile our Constitution burned and the US went from appearing to be the great force for good in the world to a squanderer of trillions, murderer of millions and gleeful despoiler of the entire planet.
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Britney Spears is being forced to give custody of her children to man-whore/baby-mama maker/Britney despoiler/my idol Kevin Federline.
Infinite Injustice xtra 2007
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