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• n  someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers.
• Pan Am Director Lindbergh has questioned the SST as a potential despoiler of the environment.
• Senate oldsters led by Texas' Connally and Virginia's Glass forthwith passionately gave the lie back to Senator Nye, excoriated him as a monstrous despoiler of honored graves.

• plunderer
• pillager
• looter
• spoiler
• raider
• freebooter

Quotes

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• Theodore Roosevelt in Newsweek
  Theodore Roosevelt, said Brinkley, who is author of a volume on TR the environmentalist, "would have gone after BP as a 'despoiler of the gulf.'" He says that Obama should have appointed a high commissioner to coordinate disaster response right...