depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Your Majesty may be the depredator to a much more serious extent, if you will condescend but to take the Countess’s heart along with you,” said the Colonel, with a grave smile.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
When I discovered one morning that my young sunflowers and my tomato vines had been cut down during the night by some lawless depredator I was mightily incensed.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Eugene Field
"Let me go, then, and follow me," replied the depredator, briefly, and in the same low tone that he had been addressed.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
He was an old depredator; and had before encountered angry authors, and artful lawyers.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
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