depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

For shame, O sinful depredator, O defrauder of the poor!'

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

"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

While it was admitted that "his competitor had imitated some single thoughts of the ancients," Philips was held up as a wholesale depredator.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander