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Bad change of scenery?
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vandalism
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Word definitions for vandalism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from French vandalisme , first used by Henri Grégoire, Bishop of Blois, in a report decrying the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution; see vandal + -ism .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vandalism is "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property". The term includes criminal damage such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner. The term finds its roots ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vandalism \Van"dal*ism\, n. The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. willful damage or destruction of any property with no other purpose than damage or destruction of said property.
Usage examples of vandalism.
An inventory showed missing bottles of Ketamine, indicating a drug-related vandalism.
Centuries of vandalism had, however, reduced them to blackened, limbless stumps carved with the graffiti of ages.
Additionally, the sky-car must be protected against every manner of damage, nuisance and misfortune, including pilferage, destruction, curiosity, tampering, vandalism, defilement, removal or concealment.
Yet the lower reaches of the garden, the fantastically sculpted ice fountains, and the decorative benches all showed signs of malicious vandalism.
I speak for the provisional executive committee of the Uaian Order, and I inform you that a large group of Uldras from the Retent, nominally wards of the Mull, yesterday invaded our lands, specifically Morningswake Domain, and there committed acts of murder and vandalism.
At worst, specialists in the new field of SRA warned, teenagers who started out innocently playing with Ouija boards or reading books on paganism and magic could be drawn into rites involving the use of dangerous symbols, and from there into vandalism, animal mutilations, ritualistic abuse of children, and suicide, or even murder.
I explained that we wanted to stay in the area, but the history of this house and the vandalism was too upsetting for us to remain here.
In the Middle Ages, at a time of religious zealotry which produced a good deal of vandalism, it was thought to be a statue of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, and as such it escaped the melting pot.
There was apparently something about the telephone company that inspired more than the normal public inclination to vandalism, thievery, and scatological attack.
In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.
Maybe, after all, in their eyes, I was only the victim of the vandalism, the lady from New York who had the incredibly bad luck to buy a stigmatized house, and then to find a murder victim.
The sabotage was so undramatic it was scarcely more than adult vandalism, but why such pettiness, why not totally disabling acts?
It was a good life, and despite the vandalism of their property, her initial reservations about Bonita Vista faded away with the passing of days.
She dealt competently, sensibly and fearlessly with everything from murder to vandalism, and even compelled the crossroads college housed within her premises to behave itself.
Eventually he pleaded guilty to vandalism and, I guess, dognapping, although he agreed to pay for the Labradors and a new set of Winnebago tires.