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vandal

noun

1 vandal

Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.

Roget 949: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer etc. 913; sinner; the wicked etc. 945; bad example.    villain, rascal, ... show more

Dutch: straatschender, vandaal, vernielal, vernieler
Polish: wandal

2 Vandal

A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455.

Dutch: vandaal, Vandaal, Vandalen
Polish: Wandal

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, ... show more

Roget 913: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer etc. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast.    firebrand, incendiary, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hoodlum, hooligan, hun ... show more.

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