Synonyms for vandalism


Grammar : Noun
Spell : van-dl-iz-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæn dlˌɪz əm


Définition of vandalism

Origin :
  • 1798, from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire, Bishop of Blois, c.1793; see vandal + -ism.
  • noun destruction
Example sentences :
  • Presently the youth paused in his vandalism and glanced about with satisfaction.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • He determined to have revenge for that act of vandalism in breaking his lamp.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • This may seem at this distance as vandalism pure and simple.
  • Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
  • He had hit on the one certain means of restraint on an act of vandalism.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
  • His heart sank within him; he was overcome by this piece of vandalism.
  • Extract from : « The Violin » by George Hart
  • The vandalism of the Revolution of 1789 was perpetrated in cold blood.
  • Extract from : « France and the Republic » by William Henry Hurlbert
  • The old clergyman could have wept with her at the vandalism.
  • Extract from : « Excuse Me! » by Rupert Hughes
  • Even in the Low Countries such carnage and vandalism had never been known.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of Belgium » by Isabel Anderson
  • The present crisis is the most awful since the days of Vandalism.
  • Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall (Volume 2 of 4) » by Albert J. Beveridge
  • And there is a vandalism that destroys the old, and worships the new, because it is new.
  • Extract from : « The World's Great Sermons, Volume 9: Cuyler to Van Dyke » by Various

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