depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would again show him that she was not a lone and helpless woman at the mercy of the casual depredator.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster’s heart.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

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

The depredator who is fortunate enough to escape the former, is seldom able to elude the latter.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir