Meaning & use
vandals
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People who deliberately destroy or damage property.
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Vandals spray-painted graffiti across the newly renovated wall.
The park installed cameras after vandals repeatedly broke the benches.
A note on using this word
The word derives from the Vandals, a Germanic people whose sack of Rome in 455 CE became associated, somewhat unfairly by modern historians, with wanton destruction.
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hooligans
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