Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Willful or malicious destruction of public or private property.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The conduct of Vandals.
- n. [lowercase] Wilful or ignorant destruction of artistic or literary treasures; hostility to or irreverence or contempt for what is beautiful or venerable.
Wiktionary
- n. Willful damage or destruction of any property with no other purpose than damage or destruction of said property.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value.
WordNet 3.0
- n. willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
Etymologies
- After the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ The term vandalism, meaning wanton destructiveness, comes from the name of the Vandals.”
“In short, the term vandalism is overly broad, and will very likely be applied to content that is simply to the dissatisfaction of existing editors, regardless of its accuracy or validity.”
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Mr Hermannn says that since 2006, North Mara has lost up to $25 million of property and gold ore to what he described as vandalism by locals.”
“So one cannot alter an act of graffiti/vandalism if that graffiti/vandalism is associated with a particular group (in this case gays).”
“Of course, vandalism is vandalism and much more if a hate crime.”
“Once they convince themselves that the threats, epithets, spittle, and vandalism is the work of “left wing plants” all we can do is wait until they run afoul of law enforcement and get locked up.”
“I almost died laughing at this pathetic fiction but suppose its to be expected - the truth that these destructive beasts ripped them from trains in orgies of vandalism is obviously too politically incorrect to swallow.”
Global Voices in English » South Africa: To vuvuzela or not to vuvuzela?
“OF COURSE vandalism is not a problem on Wikipedia.”
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“When vandalism is included, the number of incidents for SY2005-06 is 205, an increase of 65 over the previous year -- or a 32% increase.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vandalism’.
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JURI - crimes and offences
Don't commit any of these if you can
firearms trafficking, serious and organ..., trafficking in hu..., illegal shipment ..., cybercrime, money laundering, sale of counterfe..., sale of dangerous..., smuggling, infraction, corruption, organised crime and 153 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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D_Verbatim
sporadic, peculiar, treacherous, niche, ambiance, ruckus, notion, voyeurism, exclusion, proselytize, opaque, perverse and 12 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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My WordList
To learn more vocabulary
Incredible, abash, abase, vandalism, dwindle, unambiguously, prior
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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List Rated 4
incarnate, tapering, archery, ponceau, crappie, vandalism, conger, acrid, exhort, gleed, sponger, torsion and 1 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Neophytes
Counterpart to the Death Row list.
blog, broadband, mp3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue, celebrity and 40 more...
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Word Box 2
barbeque, catastrophe, sad, silhouette, subtle, schnitzel, lahar, portfolio, olio, sockdolager, palace, cheap and 15 more...
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