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- adjective Having the character of
vandalism .
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Examples
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"Hussein is not in the same league as Hitler, but, nevertheless, in a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data."
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They will look back on my generation with envious amazement, wondering how we could have been so reckless, so lacking in foresight, so wilfully vandalistic, so damn lucky.
Archive 2009-12-01 David Moore 2009
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He has used the mainstream media to criticize the "wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data."
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"Hussein is not in the same league as Hitler, but, nevertheless, in a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data." (my emphasis)
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They will look back on my generation with envious amazement, wondering how we could have been so reckless, so lacking in foresight, so wilfully vandalistic, so damn lucky.
The Four Authors of the Apocalypse: James Lovegrove Jenni Hill 2009
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We now know that Dawkins is capable of using the mainstream media to criticize the "wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data."
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Saddam Hussein is not in the same league as Hitler but, nevertheless, in a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.
Richard Dawkins: Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism 2008
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Smearing, as a "terrorist," a 63-year-old man whose youthful idea of "revolution" prompted him to do things that most people would, in the wake of 9/11, qualify as no more than extreme vandalism --- and whose last vandalistic demonstration against government property was 36 years ago, when he was 27 --- is "legitimate criticism"?
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"The Croatian defence ministry strongly condemns this vandalistic act as unethical and disrespectful to historical and cultural heritage of the country," the ministry said.
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If a person has once seen such a group of black people with the hate that they carry with them, then you can understand why they acted in such an illogical and vandalistic way as they indeed did.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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