despoiler
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Elsewhere, however, some homeowners’ associations banned the creature, deeming it a despoiler of property values.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2015
Pan Am Director Lindbergh has questioned the SST as a potential despoiler of the environment.
From Time Magazine Archive
The standard interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is, in the phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims."
From Time Magazine Archive
Land grabber, neighborhood despoiler, wheeler-dealer--those are the kinds of labels that stick to an urban real estate developer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fire ant suddenly became the target of a barrage of government releases, motion pictures, and government-inspired stories portraying it as a despoiler of southern agriculture and a killer of birds, livestock, and man.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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