depredator
Example Sentences
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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 Marmaduke William Pickthall
Great was the wonder which now rose as to who the depredator could be, and what motive he could possibly have had for acting so strange a part.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
By themselves both Hakim Khan and the Kirghiz depredator were beneath contempt; but with an enemy established on the soil of the country, they assumed a too clear and mischievous importance.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.
From With Axe and Rifle by H. Meyer
