despoiling

“We are on the trail of a gang of international thieves who came to France for the purpose of despoiling our museums,” a police spokesman announced.

Plastic, along with other litter, is also despoiling the landscape and polluting our waterways.

The world is currently producing about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, with less than 10% of it being recycled, according to the UN Environment Programme, choking landfills and despoiling oceans.

And my sister once used a sheet of carbon paper as Ken’s blanket, despoiling his face with permanent blue ink.

I just wish I hadn’t let my fandom lead me into the fluorescent-lit land of plot despoiling.