depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

For shame, O sinful depredator, O defrauder of the poor!'

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

But if superior profits be a sufficient reason for continuing distillation, it is a reason that will justify the robber, the thief, and every other depredator upon the rights of others.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

While it was admitted that "his competitor had imitated some single thoughts of the ancients," Philips was held up as a wholesale depredator.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander