ravager

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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

There was no highwayman, no menacing apparition of any sort, but the fear of some ghostly ravager had been real enough.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

Congestion of the lungs vies with sleeping sickness as the ravager of Middle Africa, and especially certain parts of the Congo.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various