despoiled
Example Sentences
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Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Too much of Seattle has been despoiled by the greed and power of developers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
They despoiled the building with their urine and feces.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
Somebody must be despoiled for its benefit—somebody too defenceless to resist, yet possessed of property sufficient to be tempting.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
