Meaning & use
Vandal
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A person who deliberately destroys or damages public or private property.
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Police are searching for the vandal who spray-painted the school walls.
The park's benches were repeatedly targeted by vandals over the summer.
A note on using this word
The common noun "vandal" comes from the Vandals, a Germanic people whose sack of Rome in 455 CE became a byword in later centuries for senseless destruction of art and culture.
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